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 

•  Ask Me About My Uterus by Abby Norman 
• On Being Ill by Virginia Woolf  

• Fierce and delicate by Rennee K. Nicholson 
• How Pregnancy Unmasked my Internalized Ableism  

History/General Information 

• Access and Integration: Perspectives of Disabled Students Living on Campus by Autumn K. Wilke et al. 
• Disability Histories edited by Susan Burch and Michael Rembis 

• Hostile, Benevolent and Ambivalent Ableism by Michelle R. Nario-Redmond 

Invisible Illnesses 

• You Poor Thing: a Retrospective Autoethnography of Visible Chronic Illness as a Symbolic Vanishing Act by Alexandra Nowakowski 
• Supporting college and university students with invisible disabilities by Christy Oslund 
• Success for college students with learning disabilities edited by Susan A. Vogel and Pamela B. Adelman  

Empowerment 

• “Getting It” by Shanna K. Kattari 
• Dis/rupting and Dis/mantling Racism and Ableism in Higher Education 
• Toilet Paper Flowers 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 by Gustavo Gonzalez-Calvo and Valeria Varea 
• Care Work: dreaming disability justice 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!