Ableism – Reading While Fat

Weightless: Making Space for my Resilient Body and Soul

This is a great book of essays dealing with the intersectionality of anti-fatness, racism, misogyny, and chronic illness, written by an astute observer of pop culture.

Sitting Pretty: The View From My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body

Sitting Pretty: The View From My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body (2020), by Rebekah Taussig, was a recent book group selection, and I’m so glad! If we live long enough, all of us, without exception, will become disabled. Sitting pretty, by rebekah taussig Taussig writes brilliantly and with humor about growing up disabled and being aContinue reading “Sitting Pretty: The View From My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body”