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Disability Justice Resources

BOOKLIST on DISABILITY JUSTICE & RADICAL REST

Curated by Rakhel Silverman-Gitin, our Walter and Teena Hendelman Student Rabbinic Intern for 2024-2025 / 5785

Eli Clare, Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation (2019, 2015)

Julia Watts Belser, Loving Our Own Bones: Disability Wisdom and the Spiritual Subversiveness of Knowing Ourselves Whole (2023)

Leah Lakshimi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice (2024)

Lennard J. David, ed., Beginning with Disability: A Primer (2018)

Sarah F. Rose. No Right to be Idle: The Invention of Disability, 1840s-1930s (2017)

Trisha Hersey, Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto (2022)

Performance/Education organizations

Sins Invalid

Kinetic Light

Propeller Dance (Ottawa)

 

 

Rakhel’s Recs for (Fictional) Media with good Disability Representation

Special (a semi-autobiographical comedic tv series about a gay journalist living with Cerebral Palsey)

Everything’s Going to be Okay (comedic tv series about a queer Autistic family)

Out of My Mind (new Disney+ original coming-of-age film about a young teen who uses a wheelchair and lives with cerebral palsy)

Wed, 26 March 2025