disability pride - physical disabilities

in honor of disability pride month, here is a series on the colours of the flag! our fifth colour on this flag is red, which represents any and all physical disabilities. examples of physical disabilities include cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis, celiac disease, dwarfism, diabetes, wheelchair users, polio, asthma, muscular dystrophy, cancer, scoliosis, ALS, arthritis and many more. books within this list will be both fiction and non-fiction. as always, feel free to comment any you recommend!

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created by keyaunna

last updated August, 2026

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Trans and Disabled: An Anthology of Identities and Experiences

Alex Iantaffi

Out on a Limb

Hannah Bonam-Young

Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space

Amanda Leduc

Why Do You Dance When You Walk?

Abdourahman A. Waberi

Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio (Anniversary Edition)

Peg Kehret

Hunchback

Saou Ichikawa

Our Bloody Pearl

D.N. Bryn

A Lady for a Duke

Alexis Hall

Time and Time Again

Chatham Greenfield

Joined at the Joints

Marissa Eller

The Maid and the Crocodile

Jordan Ifueko

Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire

Alice Wong

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

Alice Wong

Being Ace: An Anthology of Queer, Trans, Femme, and Disabled Stories of Asexual Love and Connection

Madeline Dyer

Bless the Blood: A Cancer Memoir

Walela Nehanda

How to Train Your Dragon (How to Train Your Dragon, #1)

Cressida Cowell

Breathe and Count Back from Ten

Natalia Sylvester

A Time to Dance

Padma Venkatraman

Wild and Crooked

Leah Thomas

The Girl from Aleppo: Nujeen's Escape from War to Freedom

Nujeen Mustafa

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Jean-Dominique Bauby

When the Angels Left the Old Country

Sacha Lamb

Where You See Yourself

Claire Forrest

Always Only You

Chloe Liese

The Unbroken

C.L. Clark

Borderline (The Arcadia Project #1)

Mishell Baker

The Frangipani Tree Mystery (Crown Colony, #1)

Ovidia Yu

The Chance to Fly

Ali Stroker

All the Way to the Top: How One Girl's Fight for Americans with Disabilities Changed Everything (Inspiring Activism and Diversity Book About Children with Special Needs)

Annette Bay Pimentel

Something to Talk About

Meryl Wilsner

Comments

miauwend

may i suggest hunchback by saou ichikawa? it's ownvoices too! (both the author and main character have myopathy, the author uses a wheelchair and respirator)

keyaunnaOP

i've seen that one on a lot of sites! i'll for sure add it!

miauwend

thank you!

miauwend

oh and another suggestion: why do you dance when you walk? (pourquoi tu danses quand tu marches?) by abdourahman waberi, it's ownvoices too (both author and mc have a walking impairment due to childhood polio)

keyaunnaOP

thank you so much!

barbarei

I would like to suggest Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space by Amanda Leduc :)

keyaunnaOP

ooo i've read this one! for sure!

Muskatherz

I can recommend: Trans and Disabled: an Anthology of Identities & Experiences by Alex Iantaffi

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Out on a limb by hannah bonam-young mc has the same limb difference as author, (not for the physical disability list next of kin has D/deaf asl rep, and people watching has alzheimers)

keyaunnaOP

thank you for the rec!

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