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‍Jan Grue — I live a life like yours

Jan Grue had just become a father when he inherited a stack of his childhood records. After being diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy at the age of three, Jan Grue found that doctors' notes, clinical descriptions and case histories defined his body as defective and his future as bleak and limited. Writing with wisdom and openness, Grue folds insights from art, film and literature into a comprehensive account of who he was expected to be and who he became.

Peter Rosenmeier and Asger Lind Krebs - Free us from pity

Rosenmeier and Krebs themselves say of the book's purpose that “We together have only nine fingers, but in this book nonetheless offer a helping hand to people with a physical disability, their parents, educators, teachers, politicians, and anyone else who cares that as many people as possible get the most out of life, no matter what physical limitations they go through life with.”

On the journey of the two authors, they visit other people with disabilities, professionals and researchers and mirrors and discuss their own experiences in order to become more aware of what it takes to succeed in life, even when one's possibilities are different from those of most.

Tom Shakespeare — Disability The Basics

Disability: The Basics is an engaging and accessible introduction to disability that explores the broad historical, social, environmental, economic and legal factors that influence the experiences of those living with a disability or chronic illness in modern society. Disability: The Basics aims to give readers an understanding of the experiences of people with varying functional abilities. The book is easy to read and suitable as an introduction to the field for lay people, professionals and students alike.

Alice Wong - Disability Visibility — First person stories from the twenty-first century

A groundbreaking collection of essays detailing the joys and challenges of living with a disability in a modern society: Disability Visibility brings together the voices of activists, writers, lawyers, politicians, artists and ordinary people.

Peter Catapano and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson - About us - Essays from the disability series of The New York Times

About Us is a collection of personal essays and reflections, based on the groundbreaking New York Times series “About Us,” which has transformed the conversation around living with a disability. The book creates a space where people with disabilities themselves are allowed to draw a picture of their lives, to be seen and heard as they are -- not as others perceive them.

Caspar Eric - We Can Do A Lot

We Can Do Much is a collection of poems about living in a world in martial law, a kind of everyday dystopia where death has become a natural part of life, and where the powerlessness and anger and metal fatigue have set in.

They are poems that try to find light in the cracks and to dig out a love of neighbor from the time of the interrupted. Where forces gather to move out into a world that seems at once changed and frozen solid.