Disability Reading Challenge 2021 - hosted by boneloose

Read a nonfiction book about ableism
Historical or current, institutional or interpersonal, as long as it educates you about the oppression disabled people face.
All books added
A Disability History of the United States by Kim E. Nielsen

A Disability History of the United States

ReVisioning American History

Kim E. Nielsen

240 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary, Resilient, Disabled Body by Rebekah Taussig

Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary, Resilient, Disabled Body

Rebekah Taussig

7 hours, 33 minutes • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction essays memoir emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist by Judith Heumann, Kristen Joiner

Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist

Judith Heumann, Kristen Joiner

240 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction memoir hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced
A Sporting Chance: How Ludwig Guttmann Created the Paralympic Games by Lori Alexander

A Sporting Chance: How Ludwig Guttmann Created the Paralympic Games

Lori Alexander

missing duration info • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction biography childrens sports informative inspiring slow-paced
Bodyminds Reimagined: (dis)Ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women's Speculative Fiction by Sami Schalk

Bodyminds Reimagined: (dis)Ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women's Speculative Fiction

Sami Schalk

192 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction feminism race challenging reflective slow-paced
How to Be Ace: A Memoir of Growing Up Asexual by Rebecca Burgess

How to Be Ace: A Memoir of Growing Up Asexual

Rebecca Burgess

184 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction graphic novel lgbtqia+ memoir psychology reflective medium-paced
Uncomfortable Labels: My Life as a Gay Autistic Trans Woman by Laura Kate Dale

Uncomfortable Labels: My Life as a Gay Autistic Trans Woman

Laura Kate Dale

missing page info • first pub 2019 (editions) user-added

nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir emotional informative reflective medium-paced
In a Different Key: The Story of Autism by Caren Zucker, John Donvan

In a Different Key: The Story of Autism

Caren Zucker, John Donvan

688 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history psychology science challenging informative slow-paced
Capitalism and Disability: Selected Writings by Marta Russell by Keith Rosenthal, Marta Russell

Capitalism and Disability: Selected Writings by Marta Russell

Keith Rosenthal, Marta Russell

224 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction essays politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability by Shelley Lynn Tremain

Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability

Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Shelley Lynn Tremain

258 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy challenging informative reflective medium-paced