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Please Do Not Touch This Exhibit | Jen Campbell

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Powerful, self biographical poems about all the operations Campbell underwent as a child and her struggles to become a mother with the help of IVF

I follow Campbell on YouTube and remember her talking about getting access to her medical files. In this collection there‘s several letters between doctors, making me wonder if these are real since they treat her as a curiosity

IriDas They could be. Some doctors have no compassion. 3d

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The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs | Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

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#RiseUpReads July 2025

The Future is Disabled - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Read at your own pace. There will be a discussion posted on Litsy at the end of the month.

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The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs | Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

#RiseUpReads July 2025

The Future is Disabled - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Read at your own pace. There will be a discussion posted on Litsy at the end of the month.

Please tag me in your posts & use #riseupreads
If you're not currently tagged & would like to be, let me know.

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Caterina Love this book! Looking forward to seeing y'all talk about it. 😊 Also brilliant:

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

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Disability Reader: Social Science Perspectives | Tom Shakespeare

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Out On a Limb | Hannah Bonam-Young

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Welp I accidentally read the whole thing in one sitting and really enjoyed it. I liked that they communicated with each other for the most part and they built each other up. Win and Bo definitely became better people because they met each other.

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Out On a Limb | Hannah Bonam-Young

Starting the tagged today while Rolo works out his post vet check up aggression.

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Disability Reader: Social Science Perspectives | Tom Shakespeare

#RiseUpReads July 2025 Theme: Disability Non-fiction

Please vote for what book we will read in July!

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Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement (A Norton Short) | Ashley Shew

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This was a really insightful discussion about disability and how most of society expects the disabled to use technology to become "normal" instead of changing our expectations and the world to better serve them.
Each topic was approached in a lighthearted manner, while also calling out the ableist biases typically involved. It definitely brought some things to my attention.
This was my May #bookspin @TheAromaofBooks and #roll100 @PuddleJumper

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ncsufoxes This one has been on my list. Our society does expect disabled people to conform to what they find acceptable or within the norm. My son uses text to talk & talk to text software. When he was young we had so much push back on having it on his IEP. I got told he had to physically be able to write words. I always said if business people & doctors can use the same software why can‘t a kid that has speech & auditory processing delays use it. 2w

peanutnine @ncsufoxes wow 😡 the hypocrisy is ridiculous 2w

ncsufoxes @peanutnine unfortunately people blame people for their disabilities (not that it is something that people can usually prevent) & feel that it is up to them to meet societal norms. Most people don‘t realize how ableist society is until they have to navigate it. Accommodations & inclusion benefit everyone but we put those things out of reach for most disabled people. I was thinking about the new glasses Meta made, which they gave out to 2w

ncsufoxes influencers or celebrities & maybe a handful of disabled people (a guy I follow on IG has RP & he was given a pair). Instead of giving it exclusively to disabled people to test & get the word out they give it to people that don‘t necessarily need it. Instead they‘ll charge disabled people full price for something that would benefit them. Tech stuff for disabilities is super expensive, most people can‘t afford it. Unless your state has programs. 2w

peanutnine @ncsufoxes oh yeah. My cousin was paralyzed at 16 and it's crazy the amount of hoops my aunt has to go through just to keep her day to day care and fighting with insurance to prove that she needs something 2w

julieclair This sounds like a book everyone should read. 2w

peanutnine @julieclair for sure! 2w

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