“I grew up seeing very few images that looked like me in books, film, or television. In that absence, how does one realize that something is even missing?” writes Alice Wong, founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project, in the introduction to this powerful collection of essays by disabled people. Writers such as Jen Deerinwater, Ariel Henley, Jamison Hill, and Jillian Weise cover a broad range of topics in this anthology that invites readers to question their own understanding of an ableist society and gives voice to a generation of writers who are often underrepresented in the media and publishing industry. “These stories do not seek to explain the meaning of disability or to inspire or elicit empathy. Rather, they show disabled people simply being in our own words, by our own accounts.”
