Essays adapted from an edition originally published for adults feature a diverse group of disabled advocates and writers. Voices across race, sexuality, and gender invite readers into their personal stories and perspectives. Maysoon Zayid describes how cerebral palsy technically exempts him from fasting for Ramadan, but that he did so anyway for several years until his shaking reached the point he realized it was no longer safe. Now he reminds Muslims to respect fasting differences and individual choices. Shoshana Kessock describes the intersection of her work as a writer with her bipolar disorder, and Jamison Hill discovers love and empathy with a woman who also has myalgic encephalomyelitis. Grouped in four sections titled Being, Becoming, Doing, and Connected, this collection offers an exceptional range of voices. (Age 12 and older)

Disabled young people will be proud to see themselves reflected in this hopeful, compelling, and insightful essay collection, adapted for young adults from the critically acclaimed adult book, Disability Visibility: First Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century that "sheds light on the experience of life as an individual with disabilities, as told by none other than authors with these life experiences." --Chicago Tribune, "Best books published in summer 2020" (Vintage/Knopf Doubleday edition).

The seventeen eye-opening essays in Disability Visibility, all written by disabled people, offer keen insight into the complex and rich disability experience, examining life's ableism and inequality, its challenges and losses, and celebrating its wisdom, passion, and joy.
 
The accounts in this collection ask readers to think about disabled people not as individuals who need to be “fixed,” but as members of a community with its own history, culture, and movements. They offer diverse perspectives that speak to past, present, and future generations. It is essential reading for all.