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Notes from a Reluctant Disability Activist

Ben Mattlin (Autor)

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2025
268 Seiten
Blair (Verlag)
978-1-958888-62-9 (ISBN)

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This insightful and often witty collection of essays charts the making of a reluctant disability activistincluding his commentary for NPR, the New York Times and elsewhere.Ben Mattlin was born in 1962 with spinal muscular atrophy, a congenital and progressive neuromuscular weakness. He never stood or walked but grew up expecting a normal life. In this book of essays, he chronicles that life and also charts his growth as a reluctant disability activist and public intellectual.Mattlins disability was from birth. Raised in a family that insisted that he be educated in a mainstream setting, he never thought about his disability as being an obstacle until adulthood. It was not until he had graduated from Harvard and could not find a job that he began to understand what disability rights activists were talking about.These collected short pieces chronicle Mattlins intellectual coming-of-age including his beginnings, difficult conversations about disability, the social aspects of being disabled in a nondisabled world, and a wider perspective as the author looks back on his sixty years of disability. The book contains a variety of essays intermixed with a few edited podcast transcripts. Some of the pieces are deeply personal; others are stridently political. All of them are guaranteed to make readers see life and the world in a new way.Altogether, this collection is a frank, unsentimental examination of some of the most important and moving issues of our dayalways rendered with intelligence, sensitivity, and a liberal sprinkling of humor.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.6.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Lebenshilfe / Lebensführung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: access for all • Accessibility • ADA • Americans with Disabilities Act • Capitol crawl • Crip Camp • differently abled • Disability Pride • disability rights movement • mobility aids
• ISBN-10: 1-958888-62-1 / 1958888621
• ISBN-13: 978-1-958888-62-9 / 9781958888629