Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body

Author Rebekah Taussig’s memoir through essays, this book reflects on disability, accessibility, and representation. Paralyzed since childhood, Taussig began writing mini-essays about her experiences in her mid-twenties while pursuing a PhD in disability studies. She sought stories that reflected her experiences, challenging the limited perceptions of disability as monstrous, inspirational, or angelic.

Taussig explores the complexities of living in a body that doesn’t fit, from the challenges of kindness and charity to the experience of intimacy and the notion of “ableism.” Disability affects all of us, and we need more diverse stories and voices to understand humanity. This book challenges society to be patient, vigilant, practical, imaginative, kind, and relentless as we work to rewrite our society’s narrative of disability.

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