Disability Pride Month Reading List

July is disability pride month, and as we witness and endure mass disabling events and brace against the rising tide of fascism it is both incredibly difficult and incredibly important to imagine justice and liberation.

With that in mind, I’ve put together a short reading list of my personal favourite disability reads. Maybe they can offer you some of the knowledge, solidarity and hope they have given me.

Nonfiction

• Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure by Eli Clare

• Feminist, Queer, Crip by Alison Kafer

• The Future is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

• Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race and Gender in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction by Sami Schalk

Sci-Fi and Fantasy

• Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

• The Broken Kingdoms by N. K. Jemisin

• Tehanu by Ursula K. Le Guin

• Octavia’s Brood; Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements edited by Adrienne Maree Brown and Walidah Imarisha

• Uncanny Magazine Issue 24: Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction

What are your favourite disability justice reads? Where do you find hope and liberation?