Disability visibility: 17 first-person stories for today : adapted for young adults

Part 1: Being --

If you can't fast, give / Maysoon Zayid --

There's a mathematical equation that proves I'm ugly - or so I learned in my seventh-grade art class / Ariel Henley --

When you are waiting to be healed / June Eric-Udorie --

The isolation of being deaf in prison / Jeremy Woody, as told to Christie Thompson --

Part 2: Becoming --

We can't go back / Ricardo T. Thornton Sr. --

Guide dogs don't lead blind people. We wander as one. / Haben Girma --

Canfei to Canji: the freedom of being loud / Sandy Ho --

Nurturing Black disabled joy / Keah Brown --

Selma Blair became a disabled icon overnight / Zipporah Arielle --

Part 3: Doing --

So. Not. Broken. / Alice Sheppard --

Incontinence s a public health issue - and we need to talk about it / Mari Ramsawakh --

Falling/burning: being a bipolar creator / Shoshana Kessock --

Gaining power through communication access / Lateef McLeod --

Part 4: Connecting --

The fearless Benjamin Lay: activist, abolitionist, dwarf person / Eugene Grant --

Love means never having to say...anything / Jamison Hill --

On the ancestral plane: crip hand-me-downs and the legacy of our movements / Stacey Milbern --

The beauty of spaces created for and by disabled people / s.e. smith.