International Day of Persons with Disabilities
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Note: this blog post includes resources that discuss ableism
December 3rd is International Day of Persons with Disabilities. We wanted to highlight some of the resources we have available in the Clark College Libraries that discuss what it is like to live with a disability, general history and information, invisible illnesses, and some resources that focus on empowerment.
Own voices
- Fierce and delicate, book by Rennee K. Nicholson
- How Pregnancy Unmasked my Internalized Ableism, article by Megan Winkelman Creasman
History/General Information
- Access and Integration: Perspectives of Disabled Students Living on Campus, book by Autumn K. Wilke et al.
- Disability Histories, ebook edited by Susan Burch and Michael Rembis
Invisible Illnesses
- You Poor Thing: a Retrospective Autoethnography of Visible Chronic Illness as a Symbolic Vanishing Act, article by Alexandra Nowakowski
- Supporting college and university students with invisible disabilities, ebook by Christy Oslund
- Success for college students with learning disabilities, book edited by Susan A. Vogel and Pamela B. Adelman
Empowerment
- “Getting It”, article by Shanna K. Kattari
- Dis/rupting and Dis/mantling Racism and Ableism in Higher Education, dissertation by Danielle Mireles
- Toilet Paper Flowers, book by Frank J. Sileo
- Bodies in Commotion: Disability and Performance edited by Carrie Sandahl and Philip Auslander print book or eBook
- A Turning Point as an Opportunity to (Re)Think and Give a Voice to One’s Own Body, book by Gustavo Gonzalez-Calvo and Valeria Varea
- Care Work: dreaming disability justice, ebook by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Happy Reading!
Are we missing anything? If there is something that you feel is missing from our collection, just email Library_ReferenceLibrarians@clark.edu or stop by the Ask a Librarian desk with your suggestion!