| Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body Contributor(s): Taussig, Rebekah (Author) |
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ISBN: 0062936794 ISBN-13: 9780062936790 Publisher: HarperOne OUR PRICE: $23.39 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | People With Disabilities - Biography & Autobiography | Social Activists - Social Science | People With Disabilities |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2019056133 |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 5.5" W x 8.3" (0.75 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Physically Challenged |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Rebekah Taussig, processing a lifetime of memories to paint a beautiful, nuanced portrait of a body that looks and moves differently than most. Growing up as a paralyzed girl during the 90s and early 2000s, Rebekah Taussig only saw disability depicted as something monstrous (The Hunchback of Notre Dame), inspirational (Helen Keller), or angelic (Forrest Gump). None of this felt right; and as she got older, she longed for more stories that allowed disability to be complex and ordinary, uncomfortable and fine, painful and fulfilling. Writing about the rhythms and textures of what it means to live in a body that doesn't fit, Rebekah reflects on everything from the complications of kindness and charity, living both independently and dependently, experiencing intimacy, and how the pervasiveness of ableism in our everyday media directly translates to everyday life. Disability affects all of us, directly or indirectly, at one point or another. By exploring this truth in poignant and lyrical essays, Taussig illustrates the need for more stories and more voices to understand the diversity of humanity. Sitting Pretty challenges us as a society to be patient and vigilant, practical and imaginative, kind and relentless, as we set to work to write an entirely different story. |
Contributor Bio(s): Taussig, Rebekah: - Rebekah Taussig, PhD, earned her doctorate in Creative Nonfiction and Disability Studies from the University of Kansas and teaches high school literature and writing courses. She has led workshops at the University of Michigan, University of Kansas, and Davidson College on visual representation of disability on social media, using social media as a tool to cultivate identity and community for people with disabilities, and making learning spaces accessible. She runs an Instagram account, @sitting_pretty, where she crafts mini-memoirs that explore what it means to live in her particular body. She lives in Kansas City, Kansas. |