Access, history & collective life
Disability justice, community, and the ideas that shape whose lives our world makes room for. Essays and histories that connect personal experience to public life.
This anthology gathers first-person writing from disabled people across many backgrounds and forms of expression. Edited by Alice Wong, it brings everyday life, creativity, public testimony, and activism into conversation, offering readers a broad entry point into contemporary disability culture and the people shaping it.
Kim E. Nielsen places disabled people at the center of United States history, drawing on historical records and social history. The book examines how ideas about ability and belonging have influenced American life, giving readers context for conversations about citizenship, exclusion, and disability rights.
Disabled journalist Ben Mattlin explores how disability culture, representation, and activism have developed since the Americans with Disabilities Act. Through interviews and reporting, he considers both changes in public life and exclusions within the movement, with attention to the people pressing for broader participation.
Emily Ladau offers an approachable introduction to disability language, history, identity, and everyday access. This handbook helps readers recognize ableism, think through common interactions, and make inclusion more practical, while keeping disabled people's perspectives at the center of the conversation.
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