Recs if you like Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation...
the government never cared for us ๐ฎ๐ผโโ๏ธ๐๐๏ธ
required reading for learning praxis, fighting fascism & neoliberalism, and embracing protest and uprising against capitalism and violence. not central to the U.S. additionally, includes books on queer politics, disability rights, indigenous fights for landback and much more. now is the time where it is more vital than ever that we sacrifice ourselves for the greater good. get educated folks.
Blending Memoirs with Research, Poetry, Culture
Books that are part memoir part another genre: in a way that blends multiple mediums and/or themes in unique and engaging ways. Magical, explosive and memorable narratives expressed with creativity and depth. Books that inspire me to write more.
anti-capitalist books
Intersectional books about anti-capitalism, economic injustice, and imagining better futures of interdependence and reciprocity
Madness Decolonized
books that approach the topic of (in)sanity from a non-Western or decolonial perspective. suggestions (or corrections, if Iโm mistaken about any of the current books) always welcome!
disability pride - grief, mourning, protest & rage
in honor of disability pride month, here is a series on the colours of the flag! the last (but certainly not least) colour on this flag is black, or grey, depending on who you ask. these colours are the most powerful of the bunch, since they represent those in the disability community who have died due to ableism, eugenics, suicide, illness and abuse. books in this list will be fiction and non-fiction. as always, please feel free to comment ur recs!
Radical Intersectional Ecologies๐
Nonfiction books exploring the natural world and our โplace in the family of thingsโ (Mary Oliver, Wild Geese) through radical BIPOC, queer, feminist, anti-capitalist, disability ecological perspectives. ๐ชฒ๐พ๐ฆ๐ต
Ecology, Biology, Nature๐
Nonfiction books exploring the natural world and our โplace in the family of thingsโ (Mary Oliver, Wild Geese). ๐ฆโโฌ๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ชธ๐ฆ๐ชท๐ชผ๐
Trans & Queer Nonfiction
memoirs, anthologies, graphic novels etc. - anything goes as long as it's nonfiction about the trans & queer experience
Why they burned the books
History is really just a convenient story if it's the government or a company pushing the narrative. Investigative and alternative perspectives to popular history.
Disabled, Deaf, Neurodivergent, Ill Nonfiction
A huge list of nonfiction books encompassing Disabled, Deaf, Neurodivergent, Ill bodyminds.
Similar lists of mine to check out: Disabled, Deaf, Neurodivergent, Ill Poetry AND Disability Sexuality
Sexuality, Sensuality & Disability
Books that specifically focus on the intersection between being LGBTQ and disabled. Contains some books looking at ways to feel like a sexual person when disabled.
Survivorhood ๐ฉตโ ๏ธ Read with Care
TW: SA
Nonfiction books with personal narratives about survivorhood.
I believe you. You are not alone.
Nothing About Us Without Us: Non Fiction
A collection of books by a range of disabled authors exploring what it means to navigate a world that isnโt built with accessibility in mind. Personal stories with sharp insight, these works challenge what we think we know about disability, chronic illness, mental health, neurodiversity, the myth of recovery, and what it means to belong.
List is a work in progress!
Quick Queer and Feminist Theory
These essays, manifestos, and treatises all come in under 200 pages.
Essays on rurality & other
Collection of books and essays that help question rurality and what it means to grow up there, socially, politically.. and more
Disability Representation: Cerebral Palsy
Books by and about people with cerebral palsy. The full list is available at: https://www.underground-bookshelf.com/resources/2091099_disability-representation-cerebral-palsy
