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A review by brennanaphone
Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary, Resilient, Disabled Body by Rebekah Taussig
4.0
Taussig is clearly a writer who is aiming for advocacy while still trying to be accommodating and understanding of an audience that has historically shown very little interest in disability rights. It made me kind of depressed seeing how she struggled to find a place for her own righteous anger, that she felt the need to (and recognized her own tendency to) soften and dismiss it.
The vulnerability and patience that it must have taken to write this book is so clearly on display in the chapter where she--a woman in a wheelchair--is trying to make her indifferent, nondisabled high school students give a single damn about a community that has been marginalized and ignored at every turn. The ignorant, callous shit they felt okay saying to her face was shocking and yet not surprising at all. An important voice advocating for an essential shift.
The vulnerability and patience that it must have taken to write this book is so clearly on display in the chapter where she--a woman in a wheelchair--is trying to make her indifferent, nondisabled high school students give a single damn about a community that has been marginalized and ignored at every turn. The ignorant, callous shit they felt okay saying to her face was shocking and yet not surprising at all. An important voice advocating for an essential shift.