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“People ask me, “Have you tried yoga? Kombucha? This special water?” And I don’t have the energy to explain that yes, I’ve tried them. I’ve tried crystals and healing drum circles and prayer and everything. What I want to try is acceptance. I want to see what happens if I can simply accept myself for who I am: battered, broken, hoping for relief, still enduring somehow. I will still take a cure if it’s presented to me, but I am so tired of trying to bargain with the universe for some kind of cure. The price is simply too high to live chasing cures, because in doing so, I’m missing living my life. I know only that in chasing to achieve the person I once was, I will miss the person I have become.”
― Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
― Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
“Courage, dear heart.”
― The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
― The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
“Advocacy is not just a task for charismatic individuals or high-profile community organizers. Advocacy is for all of us; advocacy is a way of life. It is a natural response to the injustices and inequality in the world.”
― Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
― Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
“Agatha let out a rush of air and gripped her old history textbook to her chest. Leave it to a librarian to find the book she needed, she thought, silently thanking the tortoise.”
― A World without Princes
― A World without Princes
“What worries me most about the proposals for legalized assisted suicide is their veneer of beneficence—the medical determination that for a given individual, suicide is reasonable or right. It is not about autonomy but about nondisabled people telling us what’s good for us. In the discussion that follows, I argue that choice is illusory in a context of pervasive inequality. Choices are structured by oppression. We shouldn’t offer assistance with suicide until we all have the assistance we need to get out of bed in the morning and live a good life. Common causes of suicidality—dependence, institutional confinement, being a burden—are entirely curable.”
― Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
― Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
Online RA Book Club
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Here for anyone looking to read lots of different genres. We can have one book a month to start us off and we should begin in December 2015!
100+ Books in 2026
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Dystopian Society
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A book club for those of us who enjoy the Post-Apocalyptic/Dystopian genre. Each month there will be a poll so we can find out what our next book wi ...more
Canton Public Library
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— last activity Dec 21, 2017 11:21AM
This is a social space designed for patrons of the Canton Public Library in Canton, Michigan to come together, interact with librarians, and discover ...more
Books 'n More
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— last activity Apr 14, 2016 03:43AM
Here's the perfect book group for read alongs with all of your Goodreading buddies! You can even request books for us to read and have discussions and ...more
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