Disability Visibility (Adapted for Young Adults)

First-Person Stories for Today

By: Alice Wong - editor

Narrated by: Sarah Ann Masse, Anthony Michael Lopez, Alice Wong

Length: 2 hrs and 45 mins

Publisher's summary

Disabled young people will be proud to see themselves reflected in this hopeful, compelling, and insightful essay collection, adapted for young adults from the critically acclaimed adult book Disability Visibility: First Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century that "sheds light on the experience of life as an individual with disabilities, as told by none other than authors with these life experiences" (Chicago Tribune, "Best books published in summer 2020" (Vintage/Knopf Doubleday edition)).

The eye-opening essays in Disability Visibility, all written by disabled people, offer keen insight into the complex and rich disability experience, examining life's ableism and inequality, its challenges and losses, and celebrating its wisdom, passion, and joy.

The accounts in this collection, adapted for audio, ask listeners to think about disabled people not as individuals who need to be “fixed”, but as members of a community with its own history, culture, and movements. They offer diverse perspectives that speak to past, present, and future generations. It is essential listening for all.

This audiobook contains unabridged selections from Disability Visibility (Adapted for Young Adults).

Audiobook table of contents:

• "If You Can’t Fast, Give" by Maysoon Zayid
• "There’s a Mathematical Equation That Proves I’m Ugly - or So I Learned in My Seventh-Grade Art Class" by Ariel Henley
• "When You Are Waiting to Be Healed" by June Eric-Udorie 
• "The Isolation of Being Deaf in Prison" by Jeremy Woody, as told to Christie Thompson
• "We Can’t Go Back" by Ricardo T. Thornton Sr.
• "Guide Dogs Don’t Lead Blind People. We Wander as One." by Haben Girma
• "Canfei to Canji: The Freedom of Being Loud" by Sandy Ho
• "Nurturing Black Disabled Joy" by Keah Brown 
• "Selma Blair Became a Disabled Icon Overnight" by Zipporah Arielle
• "So. Not. Broken." by Alice Sheppard 
• "Incontinence Is a Public Health Issue - and We Need to Talk About It" by Mari Ramsawakh
• "Falling/Burning: Being a Bipolar Creator" by Shoshana Kessock 
• "Gaining Power Through Communication Access" by Lateef McLeod
• "The Fearless Benjamin Lay: Activist, Abolitionist, Dwarf Person" by Eugene Grant 
• "On the Ancestral Plane: Crip Hand-Me-Downs and the Legacy of Our Movements" by Stacey Milbern 
• "The Beauty of Spaces Created for and by Disabled People" by s.e. smith

©2021 Alice Wong (P)2021 Listening Library

Critic reviews

“…this is essential reading.” —School Library Journal, starred review

“…uplifting anthology.” —Booklist, starred review

“This is a wide-ranging collection presenting diverse and compelling voices. Ardently, intimately political instead of passively inspirational: will galvanize young activists.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review