Disability Pride Month

Thu. Jul. 11, 2024

Discover our new book display and reading list!

July is Disability Pride Month, a time to celebrate people with disabilities and recognise their rich identities, cultures, history and contributions to society. The following reading list is a great starting place to explore diverse perspectives on disability. It features interdisciplinary studies, works on activism, and personal narratives of disabled people. The list covers a wide range of themes, from education and feminism to art and literary history. All the books on this reading list are part of this month’s thematic display and are available at the library.

• Alaimo, Stacy. Disability Studies and the Environmental Humanities : Toward an Eco-Crip Theory. Edited by Sarah Jaquette Ray and Jay Sibara, University of Nebraska Press, 2017.
• Bell, Cece, et al. El Deafo. Amulet Books, 2014.
• Berne, Patty, and Sins Invalid (Organization). Skin, Tooth, and Bone : The Basis of Movement Is Our People : A Disability Justice Primer. Second edition, Sins Invalid, 2019.
• Brewer, Judy. Disability, Human Rights, and Information Technology. Edited by Jonathan Lazar and Michael Ashley Stein, 1st edition, PENN University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017.
• Brownworth, Victoria A., and Susan Raffo, editors. Restricted Access : Lesbians on Disability. Seal Press, 1999.
• Charlton, James I. Nothing About Us without Us : Disability Oppression and Empowerment. University of California Press, 1998.
• Connor, David J., et al., editors. DisCrit : Disability Studies and Critical Race Theory in Education. Teachers College Press, 2016.
• Connor, David J., et al. Practicing Disability Studies in Education : Acting toward Social Change. Peter Lang, 2015.
• Crutchfield, Susan, and Marcy Epstein. Points of Contact : Disability, Art, and Culture. University of Michigan Press, 2000.
• Driedger, Diane, editor. Living the Edges : A Disabled Women’s Reader. Inanna Publications and Education Inc., 2010.
• Driedger, Diane, and Michelle Owen. Dissonant Disabilities : Women with Chronic Illnesses Explore Their Lives. Canadian Scholars’ Press, 2008.
• Ellcessor, Elizabeth, and Bill Kirkpatrick, editors. Disability Media Studies. New York University Press, 2017.
• Gallop, Jane. Sexuality, Disability, and Aging : Queer Temporalities of the Phallus. Duke University Press, 2019.
• Garland-Thomson, Rosemarie. Extraordinary Bodies : Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature. Columbia University Press, 1997.
• Hanes, Roy, et al., editors. The Routledge History of Disability. Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.
• Hansen, Nancy E., et al., editors. Untold Stories : A Canadian Disability History Reader. Canadian Scholars, 2018.
• Kafer, Alison. Feminist, Queer, Crip. Indiana University Press, 2013.
• Kleege, Georgina. Sight Unseen. Yale University Press, 1999.
• Kuppers, Petra. Theatre & Disability. Red Globe Press, 2017.
• Laes, Christian, editor. Disability in Antiquity. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.
• Larson, Grant, and Jeanette Robertson, editors. Disability and Social Change : A Progressive Canadian Approach. Fernwood Publishing, 2016.
• Little, Jean. Little by Little : A Writer’s Education. Viking, 1987.
• Luczak, Raymond, editor. QDA : A Queer Disability Anthology. First Squares & Rebels Edition, Squares & Rebels, 2015.
• McRuer, Robert, and Michael Bérubé. Crip Theory : Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability. New York University Press, 2006.
• McRuer, Robert. Crip Times : Disability, Globalization, and Resistance. New York University Press, 2018.
• Monaghan, Leila Frances. Many Ways to Be Deaf : International Variation in Deaf Communities. Gallaudet University Press, 2003.
• Nijkamp, Marieke, editor. Unbroken : 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens. First edition, Farrar Straus Giroux, 2018.
• Pickens, Therí A. Black Madness : : Mad Blackness. Duke University Press, 2019.
• Puar, Jasbir K. The Right to Maim : Debility, Capacity, Disability. Duke University Press, 2017.
• Rae, Robert, and Nabīl. Shaʻbān. D.A.R.E. Methuen, 2002.
• Rainey, Sarah Smith. Love, Sex, and Disability : The Pleasures of Care. Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2011.
• Russell, Marta. Beyond Ramps : Disability at the End of the Social Contract : A Warning from an Uppity Crip. Common Courage Press, 1998.
• Schalk, Samantha Dawn. Bodyminds Reimagined : (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction. Duke University Press, 2018.
• Siebers, Tobin. Disability Aesthetics. University of Michigan Press, 2010.
• Sontag, Susan. Illness as Metaphor ; and, AIDS and Its Metaphors. Picador USA, 2001.
• Stienstra, Deborah. Disability Rights. 2nd edition, Fernwood Publishing, 2020
• Stone, John H. Culture and Disability : Providing Culturally Competent Services. SAGE Publications, 2005.
• Walker, Nick. Neuroqueer Heresies : Notes on the Neurodiversity Paradigm, Autistic Empowerment, and Postnormal Possibilities. Autonomous Press, 2021.
• Watkin, Jessica, editor. Interdependent Magic : Disability Performance in Canada. First edition, Playwrights Canada Press, 2022.