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The Disability Library

I love books, I love literature, and I love this blog, but it's only been recently that I've really been given the option to explore disabled literature, and I hate that. When I was a kid, all I wanted was to be able to read about characters like me, and now as an adult, all I want is to be able to read a book that takes us seriously.

And so, friends, Romans, countrymen, I present, a special disability and chronic illness booklist, compiled by myself and through the contributions of wonderful members from this site!

As always, if there are any at all that you want me to add, please just say. I'm always looking for more!

Edit 20/10/2023: You can now suggest books using the google form at the bottom!

Updated: 31/08/2023

Articles and Chapters

The Drifting Language of Architectural Accessibility in Victor Hugo's Notre-Dame de Paris, Essaka Joshua, 2012

Early Modern Literature and Disability Studies, Allison P. Hobgood, David Houston Wood, 2017

How Do You Develop Whole Object Relations as an Adult?, Elinor Greenburg, 2019

Making Do with What You Don't Have: Disabled Black Motherhood in Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents, Anna Hinton, 2018

Necropolitics, Achille Mbeme, 2003 OR Necropolitics, Achille Mbeme, 2019

Wasted Lives: Modernity and Its Outcasts, Zygmunt Bauman, 2004

Witchcraft and deformity in early modern English Literature, Scott Eaton, 2020

Books

Fiction:

Misc:

10 Things I Can See From Here, Carrie Mac

A-F:

A Curse So Dark and Lonely, (Series), Brigid Kemmerer

Akata Witch, (Series), Nnedi Okorafor

A Mango-Shaped Space, Wendy Mass

Ancillary Justice, (Series), Ann Leckie

An Unkindness of Ghosts, Rivers Solomon

An Unseen Attraction, (Series), K. J. Charles

A Shot in the Dark, Victoria Lee

A Snicker of Magic, Natalie Lloyd

A Song of Ice and Fire, (series), George R. R. Martin

A Spindle Splintered, (Series), Alix E. Harrow

A Time to Dance, Padma Venkatraman

Bath Haus, P. J. Vernon

Beasts of Prey, (Series), Ayana Gray

The Bedlam Stacks, (Series), Natasha Pulley

Black Bird, Blue Road, Sofiya Pasternack

Black Sun, (Series), Rebecca Roanhorse

Blood Price, (Series), Tanya Huff

Borderline, (Series), Mishell Baker

Breath, Donna Jo Napoli

The Broken Kingdoms, (Series), N.K. Jemisin

Brute, Kim Fielding

Cafe con Lychee, Emery Lee

Carry the Ocean, (Series), Heidi Cullinan

Challenger Deep, Neal Shusterman

Cinder, (Series), Marissa Meyer

Clean, Amy Reed

Connection Error, (Series), Annabeth Albert

Cosima Unfortunate Steals A Star, Laura Noakes

Crazy, Benjamin Lebert

Crooked Kingdom, (Series), Leigh Bardugo

Daniel Cabot Puts Down Roots, (Series), Cat Sebastian

Daniel, Deconstructed, James Ramos

Dead in the Garden, (Series), Dahlia Donovan

Dear Fang, With Love, Rufi Thorpe

Deathless Divide, (Series), Justina Ireland

The Degenerates, J. Albert Mann

The Doctor's Discretion, E.E. Ottoman

Earth Girl, (Series), Janet Edwards

Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead, Emily R. Austin

The Extraordinaries, (Series), T. J. Klune

The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict, (Series), Trenton Lee Stewart

Fight + Flight, Jules Machias

The Final Girl Support Group, Grady Hendrix

Finding My Voice, (Series), Aoife Dooley

The First Thing About You, Chaz Hayden

Follow My Leader, James B. Garfield

Forever Is Now, Mariama J. Lockington

Fortune Favours the Dead, (Series), Stephen Spotswood

Fresh, Margot Wood

H-0:

Harmony, London Price

Harrow the Ninth, (series), Tamsyn Muir

Hench, (Series), Natalia Zina Walschots

Highly Illogical Behaviour, John Corey Whaley

Honey Girl, Morgan Rogers

How to Become a Planet, Nicole Melleby

How to Bite Your Neighbor and Win a Wager, (Series), D. N. Bryn

How to Sell Your Blood & Fall in Love, (Series), D. N. Bryn

Hunger Pangs: True Love Bites, Joy Demorra

I Am Not Alone, Francisco X. Stork

The Immeasurable Depth of You, Maria Ingrande Mora

In the Ring, Sierra Isley

Into The Drowning Deep, (Series), Mira Grant

Iron Widow, (Series), Xiran Jay Zhao

Izzy at the End of the World, K. A. Reynolds

Jodie's Journey, Colin Thiele

Just by Looking at Him, Ryan O'Connell

Kissing Doorknobs, Terry Spencer Hesser

Lakelore, Anna-Marie McLemore

Learning Curves, (Series), Ceillie Simkiss

Let's Call It a Doomsday, Katie Henry

The Library of the Dead, (Series), TL Huchu

The Lion Hunter, (Series), Elizabeth Wein

Lirael, (Series), Garth Nix

Long Macchiatos and Monsters, Alison Evans

Love from A to Z, (Series), S.K. Ali

Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses, Kristen O'Neal

Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro

The Never Tilting World, (Series), Rin Chupeco

The No-Girlfriend Rule, Christen Randall

Nona the Ninth, (series), Tamsyn Muir

Noor, Nnedi Okorafor

Odder Still, (Series), D. N. Bryn

Once Stolen, (Series), D. N. Bryn

One For All, Lillie Lainoff

On the Edge of Gone, Corinne Duyvis

Origami Striptease, Peggy Munson

Our Bloody Pearl, (Series), D. N. Bryn

Out of My Mind, Sharon M. Draper

P-T:

Parable of the Sower, (Series), Octavia E. Butler

Parable of the Talents, (Series), Octavia E. Butler

Percy Jackson & the Olympians, (series), Rick Riordan

Pomegranate, Helen Elaine Lee

The Prey of Gods, Nicky Drayden

The Pursuit Of..., (Series), Courtney Milan

The Queen's Thief, (Series), Megan Whalen Turner

The Quiet and the Loud, Helena Fox

The Raging Quiet, Sheryl Jordan

The Reanimator's Heart, (Series), Kara Jorgensen

The Remaking of Corbin Wale, Joan Parrish

Roll with It, (Series), Jamie Sumner

Russian Doll, (Series), Cristelle Comby

The Second Mango, (Series), Shira Glassman

Scar of the Bamboo Leaf, Sieni A.M

Shaman, (Series), Noah Gordon

Sick Kids in Love, Hannah Moskowitz

The Silent Boy, Lois Lowry

Six of Crows, (Series) Leigh Bardugo

Sizzle Reel, Carlyn Greenwald

The Spare Man, Mary Robinette Kowal

The Stagsblood Prince, (Series), Gideon E. Wood

Stake Sauce, Arc 1: The Secret Ingredient is Love. No, Really, (Series), RoAnna Sylver

Stars in Your Eyes, Kacen Callender [Expected release: Oct 2023]

The Storm Runner, (Series), J. C. Cervantes

Stronger Still, (Series), D. N. Bryn

Sweetblood, Pete Hautman

Tarnished Are the Stars, Rosiee Thor

The Theft of Sunlight, (Series), Intisar Khanani

Throwaway Girls, Andrea Contos

Top Ten, Katie Cotugno

Torch, Lyn Miller-Lachmann

Treasure, Rebekah Weatherspoon

Turtles All the Way Down, John Green

U-Z:

Unlicensed Delivery, Will Soulsby-McCreath Expected release October 2023

Verona Comics, Jennifer Dugan

Vorkosigan Saga, (Series), Lois McMaster Bujold

We Are the Ants, (Series), Shaun David Hutchinson

The Weight of Our Sky, Hanna Alkaf

Whip, Stir and Serve, Caitlyn Frost and Henry Drake

The Whispering Dark, Kelly Andrew

Wicked Sweet, Chelsea M. Cameron

Wonder, (Series), R. J. Palacio

Wrong to Need You, (Series), Alisha Rai

Ziggy, Stardust and Me, James Brandon

Graphic Novels:

A Quick & Easy Guide to Sex & Disability, (Non-Fiction), A. Andrews

Constellations, Kate Glasheen

Dancing After TEN: a graphic memoir, (memoir) (Non-Fiction), Vivian Chong, Georgia Webber

Everything Is an Emergency: An OCD Story in Words Pictures, (memoir) (Non-Fiction), Jason Adam Katzenstein

Frankie's World: A Graphic Novel, (Series), Aoife Dooley

The Golden Hour, Niki Smith

Nimona, N. D. Stevenson

The Third Person, (memoir) (Non-Fiction), Emma Grove

Magazines and Anthologies:

Artificial Divide, (Anthology), Robert Kingett, Randy Lacey

Beneath Ceaseless Skies #175: Grandmother-nai-Leylit's Cloth of Winds, (Article), R. B. Lemburg

Defying Doomsday, (Anthology), edited by Tsana Dolichva and Holly Kench

Josee, the Tiger and the Fish, (short story) (anthology), Seiko Tanabe

Nothing Without Us, edited by Cait Gordon and Talia C. Johnson

Nothing Without Us Too, edited by Cait Gordon and Talia C. Johnson

Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens, (Anthology), edited by Marieke Nijkamp

Uncanny #24: Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction, (Anthology), edited by: Elsa Sjunneson-Henry, Dominik Parisien et al.

Uncanny #30: Disabled People Destroy Fantasy, (Anthology), edited by: Nicolette Barischoff, Lisa M. Bradley, Katharine Duckett

We Shall Be Monsters, edited by Derek Newman-Stille

Manga:

Perfect World, (Series), Rie Aruga

The Sky is Blue with a Single Cloud, (Short Stories), Kuniko Tsurita

Non-Fiction:

Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education, Jay Timothy Dolmage

A Disability History of the United States, Kim E, Nielsen

The Architecture of Disability: Buildings, Cities, and Landscapes beyond Access, David Gissen

Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman's Fight to End Ableism, Elsa Sjunneson

Black Disability Politics, Sami Schalk

Borderline, Narcissistic, and Schizoid Adaptations: The Pursuit of Love, Admiration, and Safety, Dr. Elinor Greenburg

Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure, Eli Clare

The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Disability, Barker, Clare and Stuart Murray, editors.

The Capacity Contract: Intellectual Disability and the Question of Citizenship, Stacy Clifford Simplican

Capitalism and Disability, Martha Russel

Care work: Dreaming Disability Justice, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Catatonia, Shutdown and Breakdown in Autism: A Psycho-Ecological Approach, Dr Amitta Shah

The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays, Esme Weijun Wang

Crip Kinship, Shayda Kafai

Crip Up the Kitchen: Tools, Tips and Recipes for the Disabled Cook, Jules Sherred

Culture – Theory – Disability: Encounters between Disability Studies and Cultural Studies, Anne Waldschmidt, Hanjo Berressem, Moritz Ingwersen

Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition, Liat Ben-Moshe

Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally, Emily Ladau

Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Disability Pride: Dispatches from a Post-ADA World, Ben Mattlin

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories From the Twenty-First Century, Alice Wong

Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability and Making Space, Amanda Leduc

Every Cripple a Superhero, Christoph Keller

Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness and Liberation, Eli Clare

Feminist Queer Crip, Alison Kafer

The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Growing Up Disabled in Australia, Carly Findlay

It's Just Nerves: Notes on a Disability, Kelly Davio

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot

Language Deprivation & Deaf Mental Health, Neil S. Glickman, Wyatte C. Hall

The Minority Body: A Theory of Disability, Elizabeth Barnes

My Body and Other Crumbling Empires: Lessons for Healing in a World That Is Sick, Lyndsey Medford

No Right to Be Idle: The Invention of Disability, 1840s-1930s, Sarah F. Rose

Nothing About Us Without Us: Disability Oppression and Empowerment, James I. Charlton

The Pedagogy of Pathologization Dis/abled Girls of Color in the School-prison Nexus, Subini Ancy Annamma

Physical Disability in British Romantic Literature, Essaka Joshua

QDA: A Queer Disability Anthology, Raymond Luczak, Editor.

The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability, Jasbir K. Puar

Sitting Pretty, (memoir), Rebecca Taussig

Sounds Like Home: Growing Up Black & Deaf in the South, Mary Herring Wright

Surviving and Thriving with an Invisible Chronic Illness: How to Stay Sane and Live One Step Ahead of Your Symptoms, Ilana Jacqueline

The Things We Don't Say: An Anthology of Chronic Illness Truths, Julie Morgenlender

Uncanny Bodies: Superhero Comics and Disability, Scott T. Smith, José Alaniz

Uncomfortable Labels: My Life as a Gay Autistic Trans Woman, (memoir), Laura Kate Dale

Unmasking Autism, Devon Price

The War on Disabled People: Capitalism, Welfare and the Making of a Human Catastrophe, Ellen Clifford

We've Got This: Essays by Disabled Parents, Eliza Hull

Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life, (memoir) (essays) Alice Wong

Picture Books:

A Day With No Words, Tiffany Hammond, Kate Cosgrove-

A Friend for Henry, Jenn Bailey, Mika Song

Ali and the Sea Stars, Ali Stroker, Gillian Reid

All Are Welcome, Alexandra Penfold, Suzanne Kaufman

All the Way to the Top, Annette Bay Pimentel, Jennifer Keelan-Chaffins, Nabi Ali

Can Bears Ski?, Raymond Antrobus, Polly Dunbar

Different -- A Great Thing to Be!, Heather Alvis, Sarah Mensinga

Everyone Belongs, Heather Alvis, Sarah Mensinga

I Talk Like a River, Jordan Scott, Sydney Smith

Jubilee: The First Therapy Horse and an Olympic Dream, K. T. Johnson, Anabella Ortiz

Just Ask!, Sonia Sotomayor, Rafael López

Kami and the Yaks, Andrea Stenn Stryer, Bert Dodson

My Three Best Friends and Me, Zulay, Cari Best, Vanessa Brantley-Newton

Rescue & Jessica: A Life-Changing Friendship, Jessica Kensky, Patrick Downes, Scott Magoon

Sam's Super Seats, Keah Brown, Sharee Miller

Small Knight and the Anxiety Monster, Manka Kasha

We Move Together, Kelly Fritsch, Anne McGuire, Eduardo Trejos

We're Different, We're the Same, and We're All Wonderful!, Bobbi Jane Kates, Joe Mathieu

What Happened to You?, James Catchpole, Karen George

The World Needs More Purple People, Kristen Bell, Benjamin Hart, Daniel Wiseman

You Are Enough: A Book About Inclusion, Margaret O'Hair, Sofia Sanchez, Sofia Cardoso

You Are Loved: A Book About Families, Margaret O'Hair, Sofia Sanchez, Sofia Cardoso

The You Kind of Kind, Nina West, Hayden Evans

Zoom!, Robert Munsch, Michael Martchenko

Plays:

Peeling, Kate O'Reilly

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mostlysignssomeportents · 4 months

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This day in history

Catch me in Miami! I'll be at Books and Books in Coral Gables on Jan 22 at 8PM.

#20yrsago Kodak gives up on film cameras https://web.archive.org/web/20040401104936/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/Default.aspx?id=3948032&p1=0

#20yrsago Tim O’Reilly’s 2004 wishlist https://web.archive.org/web/20040119133107/http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/4117

#20yrsago Gene Wolfe interviewed by Neil Gaiman https://web.archive.org/web/20040407120711/http://www.bordersstores.com/features/feature.jsp?file=gaimanwolfe

#20yrsago S-Train blogger confronts a troll in meatspace https://web.archive.org/web/20040211084754/http://s-train.kaphmedia.net/archives/000318.php

#15yrsago Complete fan-reading of my essay collection “Content” https://archive.org/details/CoryDoctorow-Content_268

#15yrsago Bush official: we tortured Gitmo detainee https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/13/AR2009011303372_pf.html

#15yrsago Thomas Edison’s crappy, price-fixing EULA https://web.archive.org/web/20090125121517/http://www.alchemysite.com/blog/2009/01/eula-end-user-license-agreement-edison.html

#10yrsago Why fiction works https://locusmag.com/2014/01/cory-doctorow-cheap-writing-tricks/

#10yrsago Holding mirrors up to police lines at #Euromaidan https://web.archive.org/web/20140113120206/http://www.kyivpost.com/multimedia/photo/mirror-action-in-memory-of-nov-30-334467.html

#5yrsago China has a very Orwellian reason for banning typing “1984” on social media, while allowing people to read Nineteen Eighty-Four https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/01/why-1984-and-animal-farm-arent-banned-china/580156/

#5yrsago Hannu Rajaniemi’s Summerland: a midcentury spy thriller, with the afterlife https://memex.craphound.com/2019/01/13/hannu-rajaniemis-summerland-a-midcentury-spy-thriller-with-the-afterlife/

#5yrsago Not customers: doctors have patients, libraries have patrons, lawyers have clients and teachers have students https://memex.craphound.com/2019/01/13/not-customers-doctors-have-patients-libraries-have-patrons-lawyers-have-clients-and-teachers-have-students/

#5yrsago Trump chose a thin-skinned, blowhard ignoramus as ambassador to Germany, and now no one will talk to him except Nazis https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/u-s-ambassador-richard-grenell-is-isolated-in-berlin-a-1247610.html

#5yrsago An embroidered computer whose circuits are ornate, golden thread https://ireneposch.net/the-embroidered-computer/

#1yrago Booklist on "Red Team Blues" https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/13/marty-hench/#red-team-blues

I'm Kickstarting the audiobook for The Bezzle, the sequel to Red Team Blues, narrated by @wilwheaton! You can pre-order the audiobook and ebook, DRM free, as well as the hardcover, signed or unsigned. There's also bundles with Red Team Blues in ebook, audio or paperback.

#pluralistic

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lifesarchive · 5 months

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2023 READS (BOOKLIST)

What an incredible year is has been with my adventures in literature. I went from not reading a complete book in years to reading 30+ whole books in less than a year. Pictured above are THE BOATMAN'S DAUGHTER by ANDY DAVIDSON (★ ★ ★ ★ ★) and MY GOVERNMENT MEANS TO KILL ME by RASHEED NEWSON (★ ★ ★ ★ ★), two amazing books I read this year, but didn't get a chance to review. In descending order, here are all the books I read in 2023:

TRUE EVIL TRILOGY by R. L. STINE (1992) ★ ★ ★

JAZZ by TONI MORRISON (1992) ★ ★ ★ ★

SONG OF SOLOMON by TONI MORRISON (1977) ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

SIDLE CREEK by JOLENE McILWAIN (2023) ★ ★ ★ ★

MUCKROSS ABBEY AND OTHER STORIES by SABINA MURRAY (2023) ★ ★ ★

TEXAS HEAT: AND OTHER STORIES by WILLIAM HARRISON (2023) ★ ★ ★

BOYS IN THE VALLEY by PHILIP FRACASSI (2023) ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

PIRANESI by SUSANNA CLARKE (2023) ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

BARACOON: THE STORY OF THE LAST BLACK CARGO by ZORA NEALE HURSTON (2018) ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

NINETEEN CLAWS AND A BLACKBIRD by AGUSTINA BAZTERRICA (2020) ★ ★

THE VIOLIN CONSPIRACY by BRANDON SLOCUMB (2022) ★ ★ ★ ★

MONSTRILIO by GERARDO SAMANO CORDOVA (2023) ★ ★ ★

THE SHARDS by BRET EASTON ELLIS (2023) ★ ★ ★ ★

HUMAN SACRIFICES by MARIA FERNANDA AMPUERO (2021) ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

DEVIL HOUSE by JOHN DARNIELLE (2022) ★ ★ ★ ★

FLUX by JINWOO CHONG (2023) ★ ★ ★

THE TROOP by NICK CUTTER (2014) ★ ★ ★

MY DARKEST PRAYER by S. A. COSBY (2019) ★ ★ ★ ★

WE HAVE ALWAYS LIVED IN THE CASTLE by SHIRLEY JACKSON (1962) ★ ★ ★ ★

BELOVED by TONI MORRISON (1987) ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE by SHIRLEY JACKSON (1959) ★ ★ ★

THE VANISHING HALF by BRIT BENNETT (2020) ★ ★ ★ ★

DRIVE YOUR PLOW OVER THE BONES OF THE DEAD by OLGA TOKARZUK (2009) ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

THE BURNING GIRLS by C. J. TUDOR (2021) ★ ★ ★

HIDDEN PICTURES by JASON REKULAK (2022) ★ ★ ★

THE BOOKS OF JACOB by OLGA TOKARZUK (2022) ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

THE BOATMAN'S DAUGHTER by ANDY DAVIDSON (2020) ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

SACRIFICIO by ERNESTO MESTRE-REED (2022) ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

SUPERSTITIOUS by R. L. STINE (1995) ★ ★ ★

THE WRONG GIRL by R. L. STINE (2018) ★ ★ ★

MY GOVERNMENT MEANS TO KILL ME by RASHEED NEWSON (2022) ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

BEST BARBARIAN: POEMS by ROGER REEVES (2022) ★ ★ ★

THE THORN PULLER by ITO HIROMI (2007) ★ ★ ★ ★

NOW DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOU ARE by DANA LEVIN (2022) ★ ★ ★

THE HOLLOW KIND by ANDY DAVIDSON (2022) ★ ★ ★ ★

A HOUSE WITH GOOD BONES by T. KINGFISHER (2022) ★ ★

A DELUSION OF SATAN: THE FULL STORY OF THE SALEM WITCH TRIALS by FRANCES HILL (1995) ★ ★ ★ ★

#books & libraries #currently reading #booklover #booklr #booksbooksbooks #bookworm #fiction #literature #book review #reviews #nonfiction #book list #2023 #my government means to kill me #rasheed newson #the boatmans daughter #andy davidson #5 stars

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siranish · 1 year

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~~~ February Booklist ~~~

"The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" (2005)

" All We Ever Wanted" (2019)

"The Golden Compass" His Dark Materials I (1995)

#vintage #book blog #booklover #reading #completed list of books #1000 page book up next #his dark materials #im bad at photography no surprise

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gatheringbones · 2 years

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[“Early in July Nelson attended the first major socialist feminist conference in Yellow Springs, Ohio, where, she recently recalled, “everybody was talking about Joan Little.” When her daughter told her about the merely nominal participation of local white feminists in North Carolina, she decided to go see how she could be of use. Particularly dismaying to Nelson was the news that only six of 150 people on the mailing list of the Raleigh Rape Crisis Center responded positively to a mailer about the campaign. During her two-week stay she worked with the NAARPR; her task was to organize other white women to attend the local demonstrations surrounding the trial. In addition to the Rape Crisis Center, she focused her energy on NOW.

While the newly established NOW National Task Force on Rape, as well as NOW’s National Task Force on Minority Women, endorsed the campaign as early as the fall of 1974, support for Little among the organization’s North Carolina members remained uneven and tenuous. Fortuitously, a statewide NOW meeting took place in Raleigh on the weekend prior to the start of Little’s trial. As card-carrying members of the organization, Nelson and another visiting white feminist organizer from Chicago Women’s Liberation attended, determined to recruit local members to take action. The two joined several black women and two dozen white women at a black feminism workshop on Saturday. Aware that the state-level “leadership did not want the issue raised,” the group decided to present a resolution in support of Little to the “whole convention” at the final plenary session that evening. Scattering themselves around the room to create the impression that support for Little came from “everywhere,” they “swung the organization” in favor of their resolution and a proposal that NOW hold a press conference the next morning to publicly declare its solidarity with Little. Notably, the resolution passed by just one vote. Thirty members assembled on the Raleigh courthouse steps on Sunday, holding signs that read “Black and White Women Together” and “None Are Free Until All Are Free.” Despite the small turnout, the NOW-sponsored press conference represented an important victory for the ad hoc group.

Just on the heels of the trial, Susan Brownmiller published her book Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape to popular acclaim. The feminist activist and accomplished journalist offered a sweeping critique of male violence against women across a multiplicity of historical and cultural contexts that culminated in a clarion call for promoting arrests and stiffening penalties for sexual assault. As one antiracist feminist writer wryly observed of the book’s mainstream appeal, “Never before has the media been so friendly to radical feminism.”

In a review of the book published in Freedomways, Angela Davis noted that it was the Little case that piqued her interest in the burgeoning feminist booklist on rape. Although she found that the majority of this literature had a “decidedly racist edge,” it was Brownmiller’s tome that she found most guilty of both reproducing the racist myth of the black-beast-rapist and disavowing “the systematically ruthless ways in which Black women have been subjected to sexual violence by white men.” In the Free Joan Little movement was the analytical brick and mortar for an antirape movement that challenged, rather than collaborated with, racial criminalization.”]

emily l. thuma, from all our trials: prisons, policing, and the feminist fight to end violence, 2019

#emily l. thuma #currently reading #history stuff #the domestic violence movement was hijacked by carceral feminists

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nerdandahalf · 3 months

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books that came out in 2019

I like to make backlist booklists.

ones I read:

Bardugo, Leigh- Ninth House

Chbosky, Stephen- Imaginary Friend

El-Mohtar, Amal & Gladstone, Max- This is How You Lose the Time War

Conklin, Tara- The Last Romantics

Patchett, Ann- The Dutch House

Reid, Taylor Jenkins- Daisy Jones & The Six

Ware, Ruth- The Turn of the Key

Going on my TBR:

Awad, Mona- Bunny

Brodesser-Akner, Taffy- Fleishman Is in Trouble

Kantor, Jodi & Twohey, Megan- She Said

Kendi, Ibram X.- How to Be an Antiracist

Miller, Chanel- Know My Name

Moyes, Jojo- The Giver of Stars

Sager, Riley- Lock Every Door

Thomas, Angie- On the Come Up

West, Lindy- The Witches Are Coming

Whitehead, Colson- The Nickel Boys

Woodson, Jacqueline- Red at the Bone

My TBR is too full:

Atwood, Margaret- The Testaments

Downing, Samantha- My Lovely Wife

Gilbert, Elizabeth- City of Girls

Keane, Mary Beth- Ask Again, Yes

Morgenstern, Erin- The Starless Sea

Shannon, Samantha- The Priory of the Orange Tree

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jambjars · 5 months

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ACADEMIC BLOG POST 4- Realism: Emotional and Visual Shades

Art isn't always about what's most impressive. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy a good photorealistic portrait that took years to make as much as the next arts student, but art isn't always about capturing the precision of physical reality, regardless of the effort that goes into such projects.

Many of the largest names out there in production are dedicated to the idea that realistic art = good art, as if stylized works are less deserving of respect. I thoroughly disagree with that notion, especially when voiced in relation to my field of animation. The most striking examples I have in mind are, of course, Disney's two Lion King projects. The sheer amount of work that went into the image on the right can't be denied, and it's certainly beautiful, but I feel it was an utterly unnecessary project save for excellent portfolio work for the CGI artists.

The story of The Lion King shines because of its emotional weight, its human nature, being an adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet. While we as people can empathise with animals very easily, this is a human story in an allegorical skin to begin with, and its beautifully stylized animation and expressiveness was what made it so. Animation captures the impossible and draws us into an unbelievable narrative, and as such I believe the 2019 version suffers from the pitfalls of hypermediacy. Despite its realistic style, immersion cannot truly be experienced by the audience because of the sheer unrealism of the narrative taking place in apparently normal animals. There is no compelling reason for this narrative to take place, which causes an intense disconnect in audiences.

On the opposite end of the style scale is a gem I've stumbled across-- the game Perfect Tides by Meredith Gran.

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The visual style is nothing like reality, but the game so realistically captures the emotjonal realities of teenage girlhood.

Bibliography

BadElephantGaming (2022). The Best Gaming Story of 2022 Is In PERFECT TIDES. [online] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmloIlBnXac&ab_channel=BadElephantGaming

Coleman, Tina. "There Are No Stars in Brooklyn: Octopus Pie." Booklist, vol. 106, no. 16, 15 Apr. 2010, p. 33. Gale Academic OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A224774955/AONE?u=uniherts&sid=bookmark-AONE&xid=17871665

Culkin, Kate. "Octopus Pie Extends Its Reach." Publishers Weekly Online, 25 May 2010. Gale Academic OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A477430812/AONE?u=uniherts&sid=summon&xid=ba261c77.

Sorlin, P. (2017). André Bazin, or the Ambiguity of Reality. In: AITKEN, I The Major Realist Film Theorists: A Critical Anthology. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

The Lion King. (1994) [2D Animated Film]. Buena Vista Pictures.

The Lion King. (2019). [Film, CGI] Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.

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kathleencorbett · 1 year

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Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Watching You: A NovelPAPERBACK2019by Lisa JewellIn Lisa Jewell’s latest.

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571: Graphic Novel - This Was Our Pact

Andrews, R. (2019). This Was Our Pact. First Second.

This Was Our Pact by Ryan Andrews is a children’s graphic novel written for ages 9 - 12, grades 4 - 6. Separated into eight chapters, beautifully illustrated,the backdrop to this story is a mythic autumn equinox festival, where members of a nameless town send paper lanterns down a river that runs through town as a tradition every year. Ben, along with four of his friends, make a pact to follow the lanterns down the river as far as they go to see what happens to them. As they go farther and farther from town, following the river on their bikes, each of his friends begins to drop off until Nathaniel is left - the kid no one likes, the one everyone wants to leave behind (he’s nerdy! He likes space camp!) When only Nathaniel and Ben are left do the interesting, magically realistic things begin to happen as the boys encounter new beings and new territory. As they press on, the landscape and beings they meet take on an almost dreamlike quality: the forest becomes thicker but more serene than dangerous, encountering creatures who also have mythic lore and traditions about the lanterns that float down the river each year, a giant crow drawing a map from memory after Ben and Nathaniel lose the river. Moving through each chapter, one can’t help but feel an unplaceable sense of nostalgia: the beings, the landscapes, the problems the boys must solve are all familiar but it is hard to place why; you just know that it is. Nothing is scary or insurmountable - Ben and Nathaniel’s only goal is to follow the lanterns and while the ending (they do find out what happens to the lanterns of course) is a little lackluster, it is mythical and fantastical and very much “it’s the journey not the destination”/FRIENDSHIP.

This would be a great comic for a Tween bookclub or even a comic workshop. Ryan Andrews keeps to a mostly blue color palette in this book with the exception of a flashback scene and some small instances of yellows, reds and purples. This highlights the focus on the nighttime, the stars, the landscape. It would be a good example to use in color theory/color landscape in an art class.

Awards:

2019 Booklist Editor's Choice, 2019 Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year and 2019 Parents Magazine Best Children's Book of the Year

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Bibliographic Data: Like a Love Story by Nazemian, Abdi. Balzer + Bray 2019. ISBN 0062839365.

Plot Summary: It's 1989 in New York City, and for three teens, the world is changing. Reza is an Iranian boy who has just moved to the city with his mother to live with his stepfather and stepbrother. He's terrified that someone will guess the truth he can barely acknowledge about himself. Reza knows he's gay, but all he knows of gay life are the media's images of men dying of AIDS. Judy is an aspiring fashion designer who worships her uncle Stephen, a gay man with AIDS who devotes his time to activism as a member of ACT UP. Judy has never imagined finding romance...until she falls for Reza and they start dating. Art is Judy's best friend, their school's only out and proud teen. He'll never be who his conservative parents want him to be, so he rebels by documenting the AIDS crisis through his photographs. As Reza and Art grow closer, Reza struggles to find a way out of his deception that won't break Judy's heart--and destroy the most meaningful friendship he's ever known.

Critical Analysis: Like a Love Story tells the stories of three teenagers as they navigate their way through the tumultuous times of the 1980s, each facing their own unique challenges. Abdi Nazemian develops each character's perspective and weaves them together to create a vivid and engaging narrative.

The author does a great job of exploring the complexities of human relationships, particularly within the LGBTQ+ community. For example, readers will both love and be frustrated with Reza as he leads on his best friend, Judy, while really being attracted to other boys. Although Reza is clearly hurting his friend, it is difficult not to sympathize with him as he yearns for “normalcy” and deals with the fear of being found out.

This novel is a beautifully written and deeply moving story that will resonate with readers of all ages. Nazemian has created a wonderful story that teaches the importance of accepting and loving yourself for who you really are.

Review Excerpt(s): “Nazemian paints a picture of late ‘80s queer life in New York City that’s neither romanticized nor viewed as only tragic…. [His] latest will remind readers that first love is isolating and unifying, exhilarating and terrifying, and every paradox in between.” - ALA Booklist (starred review)

“Three characters discover their inner truths at a time that sometimes feels apocalyptic for their community and loved ones…. The intense and nuanced emotions evoked by the characters’ journeys help to give this powerful novel by Nazemian a timeless relevance.” - Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“As with the novels of Benjamin Alire Saenz or Randa Abdel-Fattah, Daria’s thought-provoking journey will resonate with teen readers of all backgrounds.” — Booklist (starred review)

“The ferociously authentic Daria is a memorable protagonist.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Connections: Other books that teach similar themes: Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo Pet by Akwaeke Emezi This is Not a Love Story by Suki Fleet

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Read Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter BY Ben Goldfarb

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WINNER of the 2019 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Washington Post "50 Notable Works of Nonfiction" Science News "Favorite Science Books of 2018" Booklist "Top Ten Science/Technology Book of 2018""A marvelously humor-laced page-turner about the science of semi-aquatic rodents.... A masterpiece of a treatise on the natural world."--The Washington Post In Eager, environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb reveals that our modern idea of what a healthy landscape looks like and how it functions is wrong, distorted by the fur trade that once trapped out millions of beavers from North America's lakes and rivers. The consequences of losing beavers were profound: streams eroded, wetlands dried up, and species from salmon to swans lost vital habitat. Today, a growing coalition of "Beaver Believers"--including scientists, ranchers, and passionate citizens--recognizes that ecosystems with beavers are far healthier, for humans and non-humans alike, than those without them.

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Booklist Online Book Review: Transforming Your Life through Self-Care: A Guide to Tapping into Your Deep Beauty and Inner Worth. ParaStyle:ByBy Carolyn A. Brent. May 2019. 168p. illus. Rowman & Littlefield, $28 (9781538120842). 158.1. REVIEW. First published April 12, 2019 (Booklist Online). Adult Books - Nonfiction - Psychology

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2019 books

january;

the beauty suit - lauren shields

born weird - andrew kaufman

february;

other people’s houses - abbi waxman

the guardian - nicholas sparks

poison study - maria v snyder

magic study - maria v snyder

fire study - maria v snyder

storm glass - maria v snyder

sea glass - maria v snyder

spy glass - maria v snyder

shadow study - maria v snyder

night study - maria v snyder

dawn study - maria v snyder

when the curtain falls - carrie hope fletcher

march;

the handmaid’s tale - margaret atwood

saint anything - sarah dessen

once & for all - sarah dessen

a map of days - ransom riggs

the bright hour - nina riggs

the whole thing together - ann brashares

april;

the assistants - camille perri

someday, someday, maybe - lauren graham

still me - jojo moyes

a hope more powerful than the sea - melissa fleming

eve - wm paul young

holding up the universe - jennifer niven

may;

the book thief - markus zusak

delirium - lauren oliver

pandemonium - lauren oliver

requiem - lauren oliver

perfect match - jodi picoult

vanishing acts - jodi picoult

the arrangement - sarah dunn

the distance between us - kasie west

eliza & her monsters - francesca zappia

june;

the royal we - heather cocks, jessica morgan

to all the boys i’ve loved before - jenny han

p.s. i still love you - jenny han

mary poppins - p.l. travers

something to talk about - dakota cassidy

july;

talking after midnight - dakota cassidy

all my friends are superheroes - andrew kaufman

finding the blue sky - joseph emet

see me - nicholas sparks

the beauty of the moment - tanaz bhathena

the lemonade war - jacqueline davies

this is where it ends - marieke nijkamp

i don’t know what you know me from - judy greer

august;

we bought a zoo - benjamin mee

the harper effect - taryn bashford

this matter of marriage - debbie macomber

adrift - tami oldham ashcraft

the 100 - kass morgan

always and forever, lara jean - jenny han

keep moving - dick van dyke

thirteen reasons why - jay asher

neil patrick harris - neil patrick harris

september;

girl, wash your face - rachel hollis

the flatshare - beth o’leary

smoke gets in your eyes - caitlin doughty

99 days - katie cotugno

the year of less - cait flanders

the elephants in my backyard - rajiv surendra

last night in the or - bud shaw

spark of light - jodi picoult

october;

wildflower - drew barrymore

better off - eric brende

year of yes - shonda rhimes

i’ve got your number - sophie kinsella

the bookish life of nina hill - abbi waxman

wedding night - sophie kinsella

chasing hope - richard m. cohen

girl, stop apologizing - rachel hollis

the kiss quotient - helen hoang

the fill-in boyfriend - kasie west

november;

talk of the town - sherrill bodine

big girl panties - stephanie evanovich

outer order, inner calm - gretchen rubin

the plus one - sarah archer

the bride test - helen hoang

december;

love, hate and other filters - samira ahmed

just one day - gayle forman

just one year - gayle forman

just one night - gayle forman

84/50

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