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Blending Memoirs with Research, Poetry, Culture

by violet.booklover

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.

Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure

Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation

Unfurl: Survivals, Sorrows, and Dreaming

The Pain Journal (Native Agents)

Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure

Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation

Disability Justice

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space

Feminist, Queer, Crip

Mad Matters: A Critical Reader for Canadian Mad Studies

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space

NOTHING ABOUT US WITHOUT US

by lauraaaa.mercedes

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!

How to Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom

A People’s Guide to Abolition and Disability Justice

Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert

Curative Violence: Rehabilitating Disability, Gender, and Sexuality in Modern Korea

How to Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom

A People’s Guide to Abolition and Disability Justice

Radical Intersectional Ecologies💚

by violet.booklover

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. 🪲🌾🦉🌵

How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

Dyke [geology]

Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation

Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature

How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

Dyke [geology]

Ecology, Biology, Nature💚

by violet.booklover

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

How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

Dyke [geology]

Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses

Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature

How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

Dyke [geology]

Disabled, Deaf, Neurodivergent, Ill Nonfiction

by violet.booklover

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

Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life

The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care

The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life

Dateable: Swiping Right, Hooking Up, and Settling Down While Chronically Ill and Disabled

Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life

The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care

books by disabled authors 💕

by yellowbird05

books written by disabled authors

Six of Crows

Crooked Kingdom

Get a Life, Chloe Brown

The Heart Principle

Six of Crows

Crooked Kingdom

Survivorhood 🩵⚠️ Read with Care

by violet.booklover

TW: SA

Nonfiction books with personal narratives about survivorhood.

I believe you. You are not alone.

Shout

How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

I Have the Right To: A High School Survivor's Story of Sexual Assault, Justice, and Hope

Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature

Shout

How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

Sexuality Studies Primer

by starfairysue

A beginner's guide to understanding human sexuality / sexuality studies!

Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality

Sex/Gender: Biology in a Social World

Evolution's Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People

Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality

Disabled Baddies to The Front

by withhernoseinabook

Centering own voices, but inclusive of disability theory

The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love with Me

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space

The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love with Me

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

Disability Studies Primer

by starfairysue

A collection of nonfiction books on disability - perfect for people who want to get into disability studies!

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure

Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally

A Disability History of the United States

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure

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