Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

What is the direct impact that disability studies has on the lives of disabled people today? The contributors to this essential anthology provide thirty-seven personal narratives that explore what it means to be disabled and why the field of disability studies matters.

The residents at a facility for disabled young people in Chicago build trust and make friends in an effort to fight against their living conditions and mistreatment.

For centuries, the women in Ninon Moise’s family have been afflicted by obscure, inexplicable medical phenomena. Ninon is no exception to this bizarre family inheritance, and she wakes one morning with a debilitating and excruciatingly painful response to touch on her arms.

When Terry Galloway turned nine, she started to go deaf from an experimental antibiotic that had been given to her pregnant mother. With disarming candor, Terry writes about her mental breakdowns, her queer identity, and living in a silent, quirky world populated by unforgettable characters.

Influential disability rights activist Judy Heumann tells her personal story of fighting for the right to receive an education, have a job, and just be human. This memoir about resistance to exclusion invites readers to imagine and make real a world in which we all belong.

In 2014, northeastern Syria might have been the last place you would expect to find a revolution centered on women’s rights. And yet, an all-female militia faced off against ISIS in a little town few had ever heard of. From that unlikely showdown emerged a fighting force that would wage war against ISIS across northern Syria. This is the story of the women of the Kurdish militia that improbably became part of the world’s best hope for stopping ISIS in Syria.

In Unmasking Autism, Dr. Devon Price shares his experience with masking and blends history, social science research, prescriptions, and personal profiles to tell a story of neurodivergence that has thus far been dominated by those on the outside looking in. Most masked Autistic individuals struggle for decades before discovering who they truly are. Dr. Price lays the groundwork for unmasking and offers exercises that encourage self-expression.

Democrats have assumed they can rely on the Latino vote, but recent elections have called that into question. In fact, despite his anti-immigrant rhetoric and disastrous border policies, Trump won a higher percentage of the Latino vote in 2020 than in 2016. Journalist Paola Ramos pulls back the curtain on these voters, traveling around the country to uncover what motivates them to support issues that seem at odds with their self-interest.

These narratives explore coming out to yourself and family and friends, falling in love, recovering from heartbreak, battling body image issues, searching for spaces to be simultaneously queer and South Asian the influence of fanfiction, navigating religion, the demand for perfection, transracial adoption, being transgender and South Asian, gender confirmation surgery, finding community, and so much more.

What isn't counted doesn’t count. And mainstream institutions systematically fail to account for feminicide, the gender-related killing of women and girls, including cisgender and transgender women. Against this failure, Counting Feminicide brings to the fore the work of data activists across the Americas who are documenting such murders--and challenging the reigning logic of data science by centering care, memory, and justice in their work.

The ‘pink tax’ has gained widespread recognition in recent years, but what happens when you look at the costs that define a woman’s entire life, especially across racial lines? In The Double Tax, Harvard researcher Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman summarizes the disparities that women face as they navigate life. Only by understanding where the gaps are and where the double tax arises can we begin to even the playing field for all.

This book contains stories by and about some of the most revered and influential judges in the United States. They provide a unique and instructive glimpse into our justice system. You will come across a remarkable array of female jurists: trailblazers, legal entrepreneurs, political strategists and mentors. This is a book about imagination, and what it took and still takes for women to imagine themselves into a structure that didn’t include them.