** Personal recommendation from Alisa

Disability Advocacy Reading

“No Pity” – Joseph P. Shapiro **
“Being Heumann” – Judy Heumann **
“Disability Visibility” – Alice Wong **
“Resistance and Hope: Essays by Disabled People” – Alice Wong
“Year of the Tiger” – Alice Wong
“Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice” – Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
“The Future Is Disabled” – Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
“Here to Stay” – Michael T. Bailey
“What We Have Done: An Oral History of the Disability Rights Movement” – Fred Pelka
“Politics of Empowerment” – David Pettinicchio
“Demystifying Disability” – Emily Ladau
“I’ll Figure It Out” – Marina Carlos
“Disability Rights and Wrongs Revisited” – Tom Shakespeare

Other Reading

“Instability in Six Colors” – Rachel Kallem Whitman **
“Black Disability Politics” – Sami Schlack
“Sitting Pretty” – Rebekah Taussig
“My Body Is Not A Prayer Request” – Amy Kenny
“The Pretty One” – Keah Brown
“Rescuing Jeffrey” – Richard Galli
“Too Late to Die Young” – Harriett McBride Johnson
“There Plant Eyes” – M. Leona Godin
“Such A Pretty Girl” – Nadina LaSpina
“I, The Revolution” – Valois J. Vera
“We’ve Been Too Patient: Voices from Radical Mental Health” – L.D. Green
“Brilliant Imperfection” – Eli Clare
“Lost in a Desert World” – Roland Johnson
“Cultural Locations of Disability” – Sharon L. Snyder and David T. Mitchell
“Feminist, Queer, Crip” – Alison Kafer
“Pause, Rest, Be” – Octavia Raheem

For Kids

“Don’t Call Me Special” – Pat Thomas, ill. Lesley Harker **
“All the Way to the Top” – Annette Bay Pimentel, ill. Nabi Ali **
“Just Ask!” – Sonia Sotomayor, ill. Rafael López
“We Move Together” – Kelly Fritsch and Anne McGuire, ill. Eduardo Trejos
“I Am Not A Label” – Cerrie Burnell, ill. Lauren Mark Baldo

Watching

Crip Camp (2020) **
The Right to be Rescued (2015)

Bookstore

Stories Like Me – 4381 Murray Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15217