Book Club

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Next Book Club Meeting

Thursday February 19th from 3:45-5PM (15:45 - 17:00) over Zoom

Reading (From the Anthology): "For Ki’tay D. Davidson, Who Loves Us" by Talila A. Lewis pp. 43-49 

AND

"If You Can’t Fast, Give" by Maysoon Zayid pp. 50-52

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Supplemental Reading: "HARRISON BERGERON" by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Etiquette

• Be polite and considerate (obviously).

• Be cool with people having different opinions about the book.

• There is no wrong opinion to have about a book (or parts of a book). Say what you feel.

  • You are allowed to dislike the book.

  • Yes, even if everyone else loves it.

• If you have trouble engaging with the book at any point, we still encourage you to show up. Please discuss why.

• Reading the book is not a prerequisite for attending. We are also looking for curious and active listeners for people to yap at. Ask respectful questions. This isn't homework. It's a reprieve.

• If enough people hate a book, we can pick a new one. We do not choose to suffer here. If you are miserable, speak up. Maybe other people are too.

• Books do not have to center around disability, although you can imagine why we recommend them. Books can also just be an escape.

Other Recommend Titles

Non-Fiction

• “Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally” by Emily Ladau

• “Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century” edited by Alice Wong

• “Black Disability Politics” by Sami Schalk

• “Not So Different: What You Really Want to Ask About Having a Disability” by Shane Burcaw

• “Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist” by Judith Heumann

• “Crip Kinship: The Disability Justice & Art Activism of Sins Invalid” by Shayda Kafai

• “Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice” by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

• “Crip Up the Kitchen: Tools, Tips, and Recipes for the Disabled Cook” by Jules Sherred

• “The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating” by Elisabeth Tova Bailey

• "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures" by Anne Fadiman

• “The Poisoner’s Handbook” by Deborah Blum

• “Medical Apartheid: The Dark History Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present” by Harriet A. Washington

• "Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identify" by Erving Goffman

Memoirs

• “The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love with Me” by Keah Brown

• “Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life" by Alice Wong

• “Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary, Resilient, Disabled Body” by Rebekah Taussig

• “Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law” by Haben Girma

• “Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger’s” by John Elder Robison

• “A Face for Picasso: Coming of Age with Crouzon Syndrome” by Ariel Henry

• “We’ve Got This: Essays by Disabled Parents” Edited by Eliza Hull

• “The Story of My Life” by Helen Keller

• “Nothing Without Us” Edited by Cait Gordon and Talia C. Johnson

• "Planet of the Blind" by Stephen Kuusisto

Fiction

• “A Curse So Dark and Lonely” by Brigid Kemmerer

• “A Time to Dance” by Padma Venkatrama

• “Show Me a Sign” by Ann Clare LeZotte

• “One Two Three” by Laurie Frankel

• “True Biz: A Novel” by Sara Novic

• "Cathedral" by Ray Carver

• “Her Body and Other Parties” by Carmen Maria Machado

• "The Hollow Places" by T. Kingfisher

• "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

• "Just an Ordinary Day" by Shirley Jackson