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)
Poetry/Readings from the Weekend’s Programming:
“Asher Yatzar (the One Who Forms) for Disabled Liberation” by Jaime S.K. Starr
“God on Wheels: Disability and Jewish Feminist Theology” by R’Julia Watts Belser
“We Are Worthy” (poem) by Elandria Williams
“I Know Crips Live Here” poem by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Moving Toward the Ugly: A Politic Beyond Desirability (speech) by Mia Mingus
Documentary:
Crip Camp (Netflix)
Videos:
“We Were all at Sinai: The Transformative Power of Inclusive Torah” talk by R’Lauren Tuchman
Podcasts:
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)