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some of my favourite novels/poetry collections/essays/etc that touch on themes of illness & disability. all written by disabled, d/deaf & chronically ill people. many are free to borrow on archive.org or a quick google away

• When the Sick Rule the World by Dodie Bellamy 
• Ongoingness: The End of a Diary by Sarah Manguso 
• Tender Points by Amy Berkowitz 
• With Wings: An Anthology Of Literature By And About Women With Disabilities edited by Marsha Saxton 
• The Perseverance by Raymond Antrobus 
• Carnal Acts by Nancy Mairs 
• A Plea for Eros by Siri Hustvedt 
• I Watched You Disappear by Anya Krugovoy Silver
• Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
• Voice Lessons: On Becoming a (Woman) Writer by Nancy Mairs
• Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System by Sonya Huber
• The Book of Goodbyes by Jillian Weise
• Bright Dead Things by Ada Limón
• Places I’ve Taken My Body by Molly McCully Brown
• Sick Woman Theory by Johanna Hedva
• The Undying by Anne Boyer
• Beauty is a Verb: the New Poetry of Disability edited by Jennifer Bartlett 
• Wound from the Mouth of a Wound by Torrin A. Greathouse
• If I Could Sleep Deeply Enough: Poems by Vassar Miller
• Love/Iraq by Sheila Black
• Blissful Times by Sandrah Alland
• Veil & Burn by Laurie Clements Lambeth
• Common Cyborg by Jillian Weise
• Teratology: Poems by Susannah Nevison
• Movements of the Uncontrollable Body by Bronwyn Valentine
  
• Such Perfection by Chloé Cooper Jones
  
• Hoist the Larger Grief Along by Aditi Nagrath
  
• On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths by Lucia Perillo

beetlegarden

we are not born to die!! what are you talking about!! do you think a book begins just to finish? do you think a song opens with a beautiful chord just for it to end? you don’t read the book to finish it, you read the book to eat up the excitement and the emotions it evokes!! to learn and to digest and to fall in love and be heartbroken!! you listen to the song to dance and dance and sing your throat raw!!! to cry and smile and swell with the harmonies!! yes, we are born with the inevitable fate of death, we are mortal after all, but that is merely the finale of the play!! the final act, the closing of the curtains - we are not born to take a bow and exit stage left!! we are born to love and be joyous and yell and move and learn and cry and feelfeelfeel!!!  we are not born to die, silly, we’re born to live!!!

chezforshire

from the flames, he rises.

welcome back parker mcmillan

positivepatton

It’s okay to not be as good at things as neurotypicals. It’s okay to not accomplish as much as able-bodied people. It’s okay to have a harder time in school, relationships, personal projects, anything. You’re allowed to have more difficulty with things than neurotypical and able-bodied people do, you’re allowed to acknowledge that your illness, disorder, and/or disability does affect you.