Recs if you like Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation...

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.

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.

Intersectional books about anti-capitalism, economic injustice, and imagining better futures of interdependence and reciprocity

books that approach the topic of (in)sanity from a non-Western or decolonial perspective. suggestions (or corrections, if I’m mistaken about any of the current books) always welcome!

Disability Justice | critical disability studies | Mad studies | crip doulaship | chronic illness & spoon theory | centering BIPOC & 2SLGBTQIA+ disabled writers | stories highlighting medical racism, ableism, sanism, audism, disablement | M.M.I.N.D stories

feel free to leave suggestions in the comments!

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!

Nonfiction books exploring the natural world and our “place in the family of things” (Mary Oliver, Wild Geese) through radical BIPOC, queer, feminist, anti-capitalist, disability ecological perspectives. 🪲🌾🦉🌵

Nonfiction books exploring the natural world and our “place in the family of things” (Mary Oliver, Wild Geese). 🐦‍⬛🦋🌱🪸🦊🪷🪼🍄

memoirs, anthologies, graphic novels etc. - anything goes as long as it's nonfiction about the trans & queer experience

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.

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

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.

TW: SA

Nonfiction books with personal narratives about survivorhood.

I believe you. You are not alone.

A collection of books by a range of disabled authors exploring what it means to navigate a world that isn’t 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!

These essays, manifestos, and treatises all come in under 200 pages.

Collection of books and essays that help question rurality and what it means to grow up there, socially, politically.. and more