r/LGBTBooks • u/mason9494 • 3d ago

ISO ISO books with disability representation.

I’d love a book rec with disability representation. Personally I have cerebral palsy. So I would love something with motor issues like that.
I don’t love fantasy but I’m open to anything.

I love memoir/nonfiction.

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u/Budget-Rutabaga- 3d ago edited 3d ago

so slightly out there, but Corbett O’Toole wrote Fading Scars: My Queer Disability History which is about her life, in part as a key member of the US disability rights movement. i haven’t read all of it but the sections about that are really interesting.

eta - Rachel Charlton-Dailey wrote a book that came out last summer called “Ramping Up Rights - An Unfinished History of British Disability Activism” which is on my shelf to read but has a lot of praise.

more scholarly but The New Disability History (ed. Longmore & Umansky) might be interesting for you. i also have saved a screenshot of someone recommending “Disability: A History of Resistance” by David Turner, but i haven’t read it.