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

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

David Gissen

224 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction informative reflective medium-paced
Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life by Alice Wong

Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life

Alice Wong

10 hours, 39 minutes • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction essays memoir politics funny informative reflective medium-paced
The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

9 hours, 21 minutes • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction essays lgbtqia+ memoir hopeful informative reflective medium-paced
Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Ejeris Dixon

Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Ejeris Dixon

347 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction essays gender race sociology informative reflective slow-paced
Fighting for YES!: The Story of Disability Rights Activist Judith Heumann by Judith Heumann, Maryann Cocca-Leffler, Vivien Mildenberger

Fighting for YES!: The Story of Disability Rights Activist Judith Heumann

Judith Heumann, Maryann Cocca-Leffler, Vivien Mildenberger

48 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction biography childrens challenging informative inspiring medium-paced
Rolling Warrior: The Incredible, Sometimes Awkward, True Story of a Rebel Girl on Wheels Who Helped Spark a Revolution by Judith Heumann, Kristen Joiner

Rolling Warrior: The Incredible, Sometimes Awkward, True Story of a Rebel Girl on Wheels Who Helped Spark a Revolution

Judith Heumann, Kristen Joiner

207 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography young adult emotional hopeful informative medium-paced
Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space by Amanda Leduc

Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space

Amanda Leduc

8 hours, 17 minutes • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction health sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
All the Weight of Our Dreams: On Living Racialized Autism by Lydia X.Z. Brown, Morénike Giwa Onaiwu, E. Ashkenazy

All the Weight of Our Dreams: On Living Racialized Autism

Lydia X.Z. Brown, Morénike Giwa Onaiwu, E. Ashkenazy

501 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction essays politics psychology race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness by Roy Richard Grinker

Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness

Roy Richard Grinker

448 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction health psychology sociology challenging informative medium-paced
Crippled: Austerity and the Demonization of Disabled People by Frances Ryan

Crippled: Austerity and the Demonization of Disabled People

Frances Ryan

7 hours, 5 minutes • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced