Disability Pride Month

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Body Talk: 37 Voices Explore Our Radical Anatomy
Continuum
The Kiss Quotient
Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses
Nothing Without Us
On Vanishing: Mortality, Dementia, and What It Means to Disappear
Enabling Acts: The Hidden Story of How the Americans with Disabilities Act Gave the Largest US Minority It's Rights
Roxy the Raccoon
Unspeakable : the story of Junius Wilson
Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens by Marieke Nijkamp
Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability
Emmanuel's dream : the true story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah

July is Disability Pride Month! 

We can celebrate by learning about the Disability Rights Movement, fighting ableism* wherever it is found, and lifting disabled voices. 

If you haven't heard of Disability Pride Month before you can read about the origin and meaning in this article. We can spend the last few days of the month (and beyond, don't let the calendar determine your intersectional education!) reading and learning about disabled experiences, disability advocacy, as well as enjoying stories that feature disabled characters that aren't just objectification as inspiration. (To learn why inspirational stories about disabled people are often a form of objectification watch this video of speaker Stella Young.)

Find the books below through the Durham Tech Library.

Books in our Dogwood Digital Library. Read online or use the Libby app with your Durham Tech username and password.

Books available in print at the Durham Tech Library.

*Ableism: "The practices and dominant attitudes in society that devalue and limit the potential of persons with disabilities. A set of practices and beliefs that assign inferior value (worth) to people who have developmental, emotional, physical or psychiatric disabilities."--StopAbleism.org

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