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Being seen : one deafblind woman's guide to end ableism / by Elsa Sjunneson.

Summary:
"A deafblind writer and professor explores how the misrepresentation of disability in books, movies, and TV harms both the disabled community and everyone else"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781982152376
  • ISBN: 1982152370
  • Physical Description: xi, 273 pages ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Tiller Press, [2021]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:
The Building Blocks of Blindness: Hi, I'm Elsa -- We Need to Talk about Helen: Breaking Gibson's Mythology -- Language Acquisition Through the Sound Barrier and Other Deafblind Mysteries -- My Body and Other Histories -- How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Identify Ableism: A Lesson in Radiation Poisoning -- Your Vision of Blindness is Impaired: The Monolith of Blindness in Media -- How I Learned to Drive, Play With Swords, And Other Things You Shouldn't Do At Home -- Yes, Virginia, Even Blind Men Can Be Assholes: The Intersection of Disability and Gender -- The Call is Coming from Inside the House: Surviving Ableist Violence Through the Lens of Horror -- Cripping My Dance Card: Required Reading for People Who Want to Date Me (But my Relatives Should Close the Book) -- Coming Out of the Closet: But Only If It's ADA Compliant -- There Are No Blind Moms on TV: Disability & Parenthood Stigma -- I Am Not a Teaching Tool: Medicalizing the Disabled Body -- Welcome to the Cyberpunk Future, It's In My Ears: Disability and Science Fiction -- We Have Always Thrived in the Castle: Defying Ableism to Become Yourself -- Cane in One Hand, Protest Sign in the Other: A View of Police Brutality and Disability -- Hindsight is 20/20, Except if You're Me and then it's [REDACTED].
Subject: Sjunneson, Elsa, 1985-
Deafblind people > Biography.
People with disabilities.
People with disabilities in mass media.
Discrimination against people with disabilities.

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