Body Liberation
Here are some suggestions for your 2024 Book Bingo NW category: Body Liberation. Body liberation is freedom from the social and political systems of oppression that designate certain bodies as more worthy, healthy, and desirable than others. To this end, body liberation encompasses many movements, including fat liberation, disability justice, racial justice, reproductive justice, and trans liberation.
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The Body Liberation Project
Nonfiction. Beyond body positivity and body acceptance, author Chrissy King envisions body liberation, where all bodies are understood and treated as inherently worthy and . Journal prompts accompany each chapter.
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True Biz
Fiction. Written by deaf author Sara Novic, this story incorporates ASL lessons in its fictional story about d/Deaf culture, ableism, the fraught realities of cochlear implants, and teenage love and political awakening.
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Healing Justice Lineages
Nonfiction. Healing justice utilizes collective care and intersectional wisdom to imagine safety and healing beyond capitalism, patriarchy, transphobia, ableism, and racial injustice. Written by two Black healing justice organizers, this book explores the origins, strategies, and futures of healing justice movements.
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Talking With Hands
Nonfiction. Hand talk is a sign language originating from Plains Indian nations. Indigenous storyteller, artist, and educator Mike Pahsetopah (Osage) conveys the history and basics of hand talk in this full-color guide with photographs, descriptions, and tips.
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Take My Hand
Fiction. In 1973 Alabama, a Black nurse realizes that young Black teens in her care are being coercively sterilized. This work of historical fiction is based on the real lives of the Relf sisters, who (along with countless people of color) endured racialized reproductive injustice.
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The Future Is Disabled
Nonfiction. Penned across 2020-2022, author and organizer Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's essays uplift the visionary genius of queer, neurodivergent, sick, and disabled BIPOC.
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Unmasking Autism
Nonfiction. Through discussions for research and lived experience, Autistic social psychologist Devon Price describes the harms of masking (the suppression of Autistic behaviors to meet the expectations of neurotypical society). Price calls for unmasking as a political goal -- for Autistic people to honor their self-determination, and for neurotypical people to dismantle ableism.
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Wash Day Diaries
GN. This graphic novel follows Kim, Dayene, Tanisha, and Cookie, four best friends whose slice-of-life stories are told through the prism of friendship, queer romance, family, and the ritual of wash day.
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Let the Record Show
Nonfiction. In-depth research and oral histories about the 1980s AIDS crisis and ACT UP, the legendary grassroots movement to fight back against the state-sanctioned public health catastrophe.
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Against Technoableism
Nonfiction. Ableism operates under the premise that disabled people are deficient and need fixing; technoableism supposes that technology is the solution, rather than creating a just and accessible society. Disabled university professor Ashley Shew argues that disabled people's most pressing problem is systemic and societal exclusion, not their bodies. Ableism operates under the premise that disabled people are deficient and need fixing; technoableism supposes that technology is the solution, rather than creating a just and accessible society. Disabled university professor Ashley Shew argues that disabled people's most pressing problem is systemic and societal exclusion, not their bodies.
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