Readings & Other Materials of Interest
Harriet Martineau, Life in The Sickroom: Essays by an Invalid
Lennard J. Davis, “Constructing Normalcy”
Eli Clare, Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure
Alice Wong, The Year of the Tiger
Audre Lorde’s The Cancer Journals
Ellen Forney, Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me
Virginia Woolf, “On Being Ill”
Frances Burney, Mastectomy Letter
Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper”
Tracy K. Smith, “How Audre Lorde’s Experience of Breast Cancer Fortified Her Revolutionary Politics”
Erica L. Williams, “The Healing Power of Black Women’s Words”
Rebecca J. Rosen, “Why are Glasses Perceived Differently than Hearing Aids?”
Ellen Samuels, “Six Ways of Looking at Crip Time.”
Keah Brown, “Nurturing Black Disabled Joy,” Disability Visibility, 117-20. [password protected post forthcoming]
