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Winter Reading List 2022: Stories From Authors With Disabilities

Katie Kirker By Katie Kirker On December 7, 2022 Access & Inclusion

Each year the Rick Hansen Foundation shares Reading Lists which highlight stories written by authors with disabilities. These stories provide insight into the unique lived experiences of each author. 

Deaf Utopia: A Memoir – and a Love Letter to a Way of Life, Nyle DiMarco with Robert Siebert

Deaf Utopia A memoir - and a Love Letter to a Way of Life written in white. Author Nyle DiMarco is smiling against a teel background. Nyle DiMarco with Robert Siebert is written at the top. A yellow circle reads New York Times Bestseller.
Image Source: Harper Collins Publishers

Nyle DiMarco shares his experience of growing up Deaf in a multi-generational Deaf family. He details his lived experience going to Deaf school across American cities and his work as an activist. His participation on the reality shows Dancing with the Stars and America’s Next Top Model helped bring deaf culture into mainstream media.  This book is a deep look at the Deaf community through engaging stories.   

Mom on Wheels: The Power of Purpose for a Parent With Paraplegia, Marjorie Aunos

 

Mom on Wheels written in white against a red background. The power of purpose for a parent with paraplegia is written at the bottom in black. Marjorie Aunos, PHD is written in black above the title. At the top, Empowering and practical is quoted by the honourable Chantal Petitclerc, Paralympian, senator and mother.
Image Source: Ingenium Books

Marjorie Aunos details the experience of her spinal cord injury that left her unable to feel anything below the neck. She shares stories of navigating motherhood layered with the discrimination and judgement that can be felt from society. Written by a Canadian author and RHF Ambassador, this book is a powerful reminder that being a good parent has nothing to do with one’s physicality.  

What Doesn't Kill You: A Life with Chronic Illness - Lessons from a Body in Revolt, Tessa Miller

What doesn't kill you is written in off-white against a blue background. A ribcage with flowers growing out of it is in the centre. At the bottom, black handwriting reads A life with chronic illness - lessons from a body in revolt.
Image Source: Macmillan Publishers

Weaving together lived experience with strong research, Tessa Miller tells the story of her Crohn’s Disease diagnosis in the landscape of chronic illness in the United States. Miller shares her experience of misdiagnosis and the years-long journey to understanding what was going on with her body.  

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

The pretty one is written in white against a photo of Keah Brown smiling. There is a pink banner at the top that reads Creator of the viral hashtag #DisabledAndCute. A quote by Roxane Gay reads. "Through her words we see that Brown is not just the pretty one, she is the magnificently human one."  A yellow banner at the bottom reads On Life, pop culture, disability, and other reasons to fall in love with me.
Image Source: Simon & Schuster

Disability advocate Keah Brown shares her experience of being born with Cerebral Palsy, including what it means to live within the intersectionality of disability and being Black.  This collection of essays tells powerful stories that seek to celebrate difference. To inspire a movement of self-love, Brown created the hashtag #DisabledandCute on social media. 

How To Lose Everything: A Memoir, Christa Couture

Dark blue cover with white and flower pattern text that reads How to lose everything. There is a key beside the title. Christa Couture and A memoir are written in yellow.
Image Source: Douglas & McIntyre

Christa Couture is a mother, a recording artist, queer, disable and Indigenous individual. In this memoir, Couture shares the experience of losing her children to medical complications, losing a leg to childhood cancer, and losing a husband to divorce. Join Couture as she shares her life’s story of grief, despair, love and the glimmers of light that seep in. 

Sitting Pretty: The View From My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body, Rebekah Taussig

Orange background with white writing that reads Sitting Pretty. Black writing reads the view from my ordinary resilient disabled body.  There is a picture of Rebekah Taussig using her wheelchair and her name is written in black on the bottom of the cover.
Image Source: Rebekah Taussig

In a series of essays, Rebekah Taussig shares her experience of growing up with a disability and navigates living independently in a world made for those without a disability. With a doctorate in creative nonfiction and disability studies it is fitting that Taussig also runs the @sitting_pretty Instagram account that collects and shares stories of those with disability.  

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Katie Kirker is currently working as the assistant on the marketing and communications team. She has previously worked as a journalist reporting on policy. She is excited to bring that experience to the RHF team.

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