Crip Your Reading (Disability Reading Challenge) - hosted by katsmedialibrary

A disability activist memoir
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The View from Down Here: Life As a Young Disabled Woman by Lucy Webster

The View from Down Here: Life As a Young Disabled Woman

Lucy Webster

6 hours, 25 minutes • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction memoir informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

8 hours, 8 minutes • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction essays health lgbtqia+ sociology emotional reflective slow-paced
Miss Major Speaks: The Life and Times of a Black Trans Revolutionary by Miss Major Griffin-Gracy

Miss Major Speaks: The Life and Times of a Black Trans Revolutionary

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy

192 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir hopeful informative reflective medium-paced
Can't Read, Can't Write, Here's My Book by Michael Jacques

Can't Read, Can't Write, Here's My Book

Michael Jacques

112 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography emotional hopeful inspiring slow-paced
A Different Sort of Normal by Abigail Balfe

A Different Sort of Normal

Abigail Balfe

240 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction memoir middle grade emotional funny reflective medium-paced
Pretending to be Normal: Living with Asperger's Syndrome (Autism Spectrum Disorder) by Liane Holliday Willey

Pretending to be Normal: Living with Asperger's Syndrome (Autism Spectrum Disorder)

Liane Holliday Willey

192 pages • first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction memoir psychology challenging informative inspiring medium-paced
The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness by Meghan O'Rourke

The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness

Meghan O'Rourke

336 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction health history memoir challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Poor Little Sick Girls: A love letter to unacceptable women by Ione Gamble

Poor Little Sick Girls: A love letter to unacceptable women

Ione Gamble

304 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction essays feminism health funny informative reflective medium-paced
Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371 by MK Czerwiec

Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371

Graphic Medicine

MK Czerwiec

224 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction graphic novel health memoir emotional slow-paced
Deaf Utopia: A Memoir—and a Love Letter to a Way of Life by Nyle DiMarco

Deaf Utopia: A Memoir—and a Love Letter to a Way of Life

Nyle DiMarco

10 hours, 49 minutes • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir emotional informative inspiring medium-paced