Disability Pride Month titles in the SEC Library
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July is Disability Pride Month
“My disability exists not because I use a wheelchair, but because the broader environment is not accessible.” – Stella Young
“I wish for a world that views disability, mental or physical, not as a hindrance but as unique attributes that can be seen as powerful assets if given the right opportunities.” – Oliver Sacks
“I am different, not less.” – Dr. Temple Grandin
The architecture of disability : buildings, cities, and landscapes beyond access by Call Number: NA2500 .G47 2022By recontextualizing the history of architecture through the discourse of disability, this book presents a unique challenge to current modes of architectural practice, theory, and education. Envisioning an architectural design that fully integrates disabled persons into its production, it advocates for looking beyond traditional notions of accessibility and shows how certain incapacities can help to positively reimagine the roots of architecture.
Being Heumann an unrepentant memoir of a disability rights activist by Call Number: JC571 .H49 2020 & eBookOne of the most influential disability rights activists in US history tells her personal story of fighting for the right to receive an education, have a job, and just be human.
Being seen : one deafblind woman's fight to end ableism by Call Number: HV1792.S54 A3 2022A Deafblind writer and professor explores how the misrepresentation of disability in books, movies, and TV harms both the disabled community and everyone else.
Care work : dreaming disability justice by Call Number: HV1568 .P54 2018
Demystifying disability : what to know, what to say, and how to be an ally by Call Number: HV3011 .L33 2021
Disability interactions : creating inclusive innovations by Call Number: HV1569.5 .H65 2022ebDisability interactions (DIX) is a new approach to combining cross-disciplinary methods and theories from Human Computer Interaction (HCI), disability studies, assistive technology, and social development to co-create new technologies, experiences, and ways of working with disabled people.
Disability pride : dispatches from a post-ADA world by Call Number: HV1553 .M3725 2022
Disability Visibility by Call Number: HV1552.3 .D57 2020Disability Visibility brings together the voices of activists, authors, lawyers, politicians, artists, and everyday people whose daily lives are, in the words of playwright Neil Marcus, "an art ... an ingenious way to live."
Disability visibility : 17 first-person stories for today : adapted for young adults by Call Number: HV1552.3 .D572 2021
Divergent mind : thriving in a world that wasn't designed for you by Call Number: RC451.4.W6 N47 2021A paradigm-shifting study of neurodivergent women--those with ADHD, autism, synesthesia, high sensitivity, and sensory processing disorder--exploring why these traits are overlooked in women and how society benefits from allowing their unique strengths to flourish. As a successful Harvard and Berkeley-educated writer, entrepreneur, and devoted mother, Jenara Nerenberg was shocked to discover that her "symptoms"--only ever labeled as anxiety-- were considered autistic and ADHD.
Haben : the deafblind woman who conquered Harvard Law by Call Number: KF373.G567 A3 2020
Happy at any cost : the revolutionary vision and fatal quest of Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh by Call Number: HC102.5.H795 G75 2022Publication Date: 2022-03-15
How to be human : an autistic man's guide to life by Call Number: RC553.A88 F57 2022
The invisible kingdom : reimagining chronic illness by Call Number: RC108 .O765 2023Publication Date: 2023-02-28
Mean baby : a memoir of growing up by Call Number: PN2287.B454915 A3 2023
Pathological : the true story of six misdiagnoses by Call Number: RC464.F39 A3 2022Publication Date: 2022-03-29
The pretty one : on life, pop culture, disability, and other reasons to fall in love with me by Call Number: RC388 .B763 2019From the disability rights advocate and creator of the #DisabledAndCute viral campaign, a thoughtful, inspiring, and charming collection of essays exploring what it means to be black and disabled in a mostly able-bodied white America.
Sitting pretty : the view from my ordinary resilient disabled body by Call Number: RC406.P3 T38 2021
Unmasking autism : discovering the new faces of neurodiversity by Call Number: HV1570.25.G57 P75 2022 & ebookIn Unmasking Autism, Dr. Devon Price shares his personal experience with masking and blends history, social science research, prescriptions, and personal profiles to tell a story of neurodivergence that has thus far been dominated by those on the outside looking in.
Visual thinking : the hidden gifts of people who think in pictures, patterns, and abstractions by Call Number: BF241 .G683 2022
We're not broken : changing the autism conversation by Call Number: RC553.A88 G364 2021
Year of the tiger : an activist's life by Call Number: RC935.A8 W66 2022Drawing on a collection of original essays, previously published work, conversations, graphics, photos, commissioned art by disabled and Asian American artists, and more, Alice uses her unique talent to share an impressionistic scrapbook of her life as an Asian American disabled activist, community organizer, media maker, and dreamer.
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- Being Neurodivergent in Academia (eLife) - Discussions around neurodiversity and neurodivergence in recent years have underscored the importance of listening to neurodivergent voices. With an emphasis on first-hand accounts, this collection provides insights into the diverse experiences of neurodivergent academics and highlights ways that research could become more neuroinclusive.