Books for Disability Pride Month

By Coll Rowe | June 5 2024 | Disability Studies

We are celebrating Disability Pride Month in July with books from disabled writers, artists, and activists who have fought to create a more inclusive world.

Find our full collection of titles, which includes literature, memoir, and history here.

An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist
9780807002803

One of the most influential disability rights activists in US history tells her personal story of fighting for the right to receive an education, have a job, and just be human.

$16.99 US
Feb 23, 2021
Paperback
232 Pages
Beacon Press

Essays on Love, Care, and Desire
9780593469736
The much-anticipated follow up to the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility: another revolutionary collection of first-person writing on the joys and challenges of the modern disability experience, and intimacy in all its myriad forms.
$19.00 US
Apr 30, 2024
Paperback
384 Pages
Vintage

What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally
9781984858979
Now newly revised and expanded, this approachable guide teaches you how to be a thoughtful, informed ally to disabled people, with actionable steps for what to say and do (and what not to do), and tips for making the world a more accessible, inclusive place.
$16.00 US
Sep 07, 2021
Paperback
176 Pages
Ten Speed Press

Dispatches from a Post-ADA World
9780807013335
A revealing portrait of the diverse disability community as it is today, and how disability attitudes, activism, and representation have evolved since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
$21.95 US
Nov 14, 2023
Paperback
272 Pages
Beacon Press

Making Peace with a Stutter
9780593312834
An intimate, candid memoir about learning to live with—rather than “overcome”—a stutter
$17.00 US
Jan 09, 2024
Paperback
272 Pages
Vintage

The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions
9780593418376
A landmark book that reveals, celebrates, and advocates for the special minds and contributions of visual thinkers.
$18.00 US
Oct 10, 2023
Paperback
416 Pages
Riverhead Books

A Novel
9780593241523
A “tender, beautiful and radiantly outraged” (The New York Times Book Review) novel that follows a year of seismic romantic, political, and familial shifts for a teacher and her students at a boarding school for the deaf, from the acclaimed author of Girl at War.
$19.00 US
Feb 28, 2023
Paperback
416 Pages
Random House Trade Paperbacks