Offers seventeen first-person essays written by individuals with disabilities that explore their experiences and diversity.

"This work is based on Disability visibility: first-person stories from the twenty-first century, introduction and compilation Ã2020 by Alice Wong, published in paperback by Vintage Books, an division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York"--Title page verso.

Part 1: Being. If you can't fast, give / Maysoon Zayid ; There's a mathematical equation that proves I'm ugly--or so I learned in in my seventh-grade art class / Ariel Henley ; When you are waiting to be healed / June Eric-Udorie ; The isolation of being deaf in prison / Jeremy Woody, as told to Christie Thompson -- Part 2: Becoming. We can't go back / Ricardo T. Thornton Sr. ; Guide dogs don't lead blind people. We wander as one. / Haben Girma ; Canfei to Canji: the freedom of being loud / Sandy Ho ; Nurturing Black disabled joy / Keah Brown ; Selma Blair became a disabled icon overnight. Here's why we need more stories like hers. / Zipporah Arielle -- Part 3: Doing. So. Not. Broken. / Alice Sheppard ; Incontinence Is a public health issue--and we need to talk about it / Mari Ramsawakh ; Falling/burning: Hannah Gadsby, Nanette, and being a bipolar creator / Shoshana Kessock ; Gaining power through communication access / Lateef McLeod -- Part 4: Connecting. The fearless Benjamin Lay: activist, abolitionist, dwarf person / Eugene Grant ; Love means never having to say ... anything / Jamison Hill ; On the ancestral plane: crip hand-me-downs and the legacy of our movements / Stacey Milbern ; The beauty of spaces created for and by disabled people / s.e. smith.