Radical Visibility: A Disabled Queer Clothing Reform Movement Manifesto Jeremy Woody, as told to Christie Thompson The Erasure of Indigenous People in Chronic Illness There’s a Mathematical Equation That Proves I’m Ugly-Or So I Learned in My Seventh-Grade Art Class It looks to the future and the past with hope and love. It celebrates and documents disability culture in the now. It invites readers to question their own understandings. Activist Alice Wong brings together this urgent, galvanizing collection of contemporary essays by disabled people, just in time for the thirtieth anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act,įrom Harriet McBryde Johnson’s account of her debate with Peter Singer over her own personhood to original pieces by authors like Keah Brown and Haben Girma from blog posts, manifestos, and eulogies to Congressional testimonies, and beyond: this anthology gives a glimpse into the rich complexity of the disabled experience, highlighting the passions, talents, and everyday lives of this community. Some disabilities are visible, others less apparent-but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture. One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. It's an eye-opening collection that readers will revisit time and time again.” - Chicago Tribune It sheds light on the experience of life as an individual with disabilities, as told by none other than authors with these life experiences. If, however, you want to read accounts of grief and joy, independence and interdependence, challenge and transformative creativity, then I highly recommend this book.“Disability rights activist Alice Wong brings tough conversations to the forefront of society with this anthology. If you are looking for a simple set of narratives to teach you about what it means to be disabled, this is not the collection for you. Even so, expect to experience some discomfort. The essays start with content notes, if applicable, empowering you to encounter any potentially triggering topics on your own terms. It’s possible to read Disability Visibility quickly, since it’s made up of mostly short essays, but I suggest that you take the time to engage deeply with each account. In part two, Sky Cubacub articulates their vision for a disabled queer clothing reform and asks: ‘If we eliminate the pressure to pass, what delicious and devastating opportunities for transformation might we create?’ Díaz-Merced’s TedTalk transcript appears in part three, while in the final section the Harriet Tubman Collective reminds the Movement for Black Lives that ‘liberation will never come without the intentional centering of Black Disabled/Deaf narratives and leadership’. The first section opens with activist Harriet McBryde Johnson’s essay Unspeakable Conversations, an account of her debate with Australian philosopher Peter Singer about the selective infanticide of disabled infants. Wong has not painted a complete picture of the disabled community, nor does she claim to, but she has brought together an intentionally intersectional collection of stories to ‘show disabled people simply being in own words’. An outgrowth of Wong’s work with the Disibility Visibility Project, which she started in 2014 to collect and preserve disabled people’s oral histories, the book includes manifestos, poetry, love stories, transcripts and a eulogy. ‘Science is for everyone … it has to be available to everyone,’ she says.ĭíaz-Merced’s is one of 37 voices that speaks from the pages of Disability Visibility, edited by Alice Wong. Not only did that innovation allow her to continue in her profession, but also it revealed new information about supernova explosions that had never been observed in visual representations of the same data. Wanda Díaz-Merced lost access to this data when she lost her sight, leading her to come up with sonification – a way to translate intensity into sound. Instead, sighted physicists study graphs of light intensity over time to learn about this type of neutron star. A magnetar is born in a gamma-ray burst, an incredibly powerful astronomical event that, nevertheless, cannot be seen with the naked eye.
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