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15 participants (104 books)

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Disability history, critical disability theory, and disability justice. 90 books for 1990: the year of the Americans with Disabilities Act

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Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman's Fight to End Ableism by Elsa Sjunneson

Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman's Fight to End Ableism

Elsa Sjunneson

256 pages • 2021 • 4 editions

nonfiction biography lgbtqia+ memoir emotional funny reflective medium-paced
Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law by Haben Girma

Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law

Haben Girma

288 pages • 2019 • 10 editions

nonfiction memoir hopeful informative reflective medium-paced
Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky

Deaf Republic

Ilya Kaminsky

80 pages • 2019 • 17 editions

fiction poetry politics dark emotional reflective fast-paced
Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness by Melanie Yergeau

Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness

Melanie Yergeau

312 pages • 2017 • 3 editions

nonfiction science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Pattern Seekers: How Autism Drives Human Invention by Simon Baron-Cohen

The Pattern Seekers: How Autism Drives Human Invention

Simon Baron-Cohen

272 pages • 2020 • 12 editions

nonfiction health psychology science informative slow-paced
Spectrum Women: Walking to the Beat of Autism by Dena Gassner, Terri Mayne, Barb Cook, Christine Jenkins, Catriona Stewart, Maura Campbell, Lisa Morgan, Renata Jurkevythz, Anita Lesko, Kate Ross, Samantha Craft, Michelle Garnett, ARTEMISIA, Jen Elcheson, Liane Holliday Willey, Yenn Purkis, Becca Lory

Spectrum Women: Walking to the Beat of Autism

Dena Gassner, Terri Mayne, Barb Cook, Christine Jenkins, Catriona Stewart, Maura Campbell, Lisa Morgan, Renata Jurkevythz, Anita Lesko, Kate Ross, Samantha Craft, Michelle Garnett, ARTEMISIA, Jen Elcheson, Liane Holliday Willey, Yenn Purkis, Becca Lory

336 pages • 2018 • 4 editions

nonfiction essays psychology hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced
Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna by Edith Sheffer

Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna

Edith Sheffer

320 pages • 2018 • 10 editions

nonfiction history psychology science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
All the Weight of Our Dreams: On Living Racialized Autism by Lydia X.Z. Brown, Morénike Giwa Onaiwu, E. Ashkenazy

All the Weight of Our Dreams: On Living Racialized Autism

Lydia X.Z. Brown, Morénike Giwa Onaiwu, E. Ashkenazy

501 pages • 2017 • 2 editions

nonfiction essays politics psychology race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Letters to My Weird Sisters: On Autism and Feminism by Joanne Limburg

Letters to My Weird Sisters: On Autism and Feminism

Joanne Limburg

272 pages • 2021 • 4 editions

nonfiction feminism memoir challenging emotional informative slow-paced
Autism in Heels: The Untold Story of a Female Life on the Spectrum by Jennifer Cook O'Toole

Autism in Heels: The Untold Story of a Female Life on the Spectrum

Jennifer Cook O'Toole

272 pages • 2018 • 9 editions

nonfiction memoir emotional informative reflective medium-paced