The Power of Disability – Table of Contents
Table of contents
FROM AL’S LATEST BOOK
THE POWER OF DISABILITY, 10 LESSONS FOR SURVIVING, THRIVING, AND CHANGING THE WORLD
Lesson 1: If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It
- What Gord Walker Taught Me
- Body Politics: Catherine Frazee
- Brilliant Imperfection: Eli Clare
- The Gift: Judith Snow
- A Brief History of Imperfection: Dr. Stephen Hawking
- If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It: The Schappell Twins
- Hidden Wholeness: Parker Palmer
- Humanity Passport: Naoki Higashida with David Mitchell
- A Culture with No Boundaries: Carey, Shelly, and Zoe Elverum
Lesson 2: Funny Things Happen on the Way to the Future
- What David Roche Taught Me
- Funny Things Happen on the Way to the Future: Michael J. Fox
- Laughing Matters: Maysoon Zayid
- If at Birth You Don’t Succeed: Zach Anner
- Changing the World One Laugh at a Time: Nidhi Goyal
- Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot: John Callahan
- Get Down Moves: Lauren Potter
- Smart Ass Empire: Mike Ervin
- Funny, You Don’t Look Crazy: Victoria Maxwell
Lesson 3: Label Jars, Not People
- What Cradle Heaven Taught Me
- The Mismeasure of Man: Stephen Jay Gould
- The Power of Not Fitting In: Temple Grandin
- Dethroning Stereotypes: Peter Dinklage
- Identity Complications: Cristina Hartmann
- The R-Word: Timothy Shriver
- Breaking the Silence: Allie Cashel
- Label Jars, Not People: Edith Sheffer
- Branding Disability: Albert Lasker
Lesson 4: There Ain’t No Cure for Love
- What Phil and Wendy Allen Taught Me
- Hot, Wet, and Shaking: Kaleigh Trace
- There Ain’t No Cure for Love: Leonard Cohen
- Love at Second Sight: Marlena Blavin
- Sex and the Gimpy Girl: Nancy Mairs
- Crossing Half of China to Sleep with You: Yu Xiuhua
- Fifty Shades of Scarlet: Mik Scarlet
- Things Disabled People Know about Parenting: Ing Wong-Ward
- In Sickness and in Health: Ben Mattlin
Lesson 5: All Means All
- What Ted and Josh Kuntz Taught Me
- The Elephant in the Room: Caroline Casey
- Krip-Hop Nation: Luca Patuelli
- Runway to the World: Aaron Philip
- Unleash Different: Rich Donovan
- Navigating Privilege and Power: Deborah Dagit
- Sharing Lives: The Village of Geel and Alex Fox
- An Authentic Doctor: David Renaud
- All Means All: Marsha Forest and Jack Pearpoint
Lesson 6: Adversity Is an Opportunity
- What Sam Sullivan Taught Me
- Mothering On: Christa Couture
- Breathing Love into Zika: The Guerreira Mothers of Brazil
- Radical Optimist: Helen Keller
- Adversity Is an Opportunity: Aimee Mullins
- Better and Darker Angels: Abraham Lincoln
- Image Maker: Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- Breaking Ground: Pearl S. Buck
- The Dark Side of the Game: Tim Green
Lesson 7: Art Blooms at the Edges
- What Geoff McMurchy Taught Me
- Art Blooms at the Edges: Yayoi Kusama
- The Heart of the Matter: Itzhak Perlman
- Black Beauty: Anna Sewell 106 The Key of Life: Stevie Wonder
- A Chair in the Sky: Charles Mingus with Joni Mitchell
- Outsider: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Equals at Arthur’s Round Table: Niall McNeil and Marcus Youssef
- Changing the World, One Painting at a Time: Yaniv Janson
Lesson 8: Awaken to All Your Senses
- What Peggie Taught Me
- Touching the Rock: John Hull
- Awakening to Our Senses : Evelyn Glennie
- The Swoon of the Sensuous: DJ Savarese
- The Sounds of Science: Wanda Díaz-Merced
- Labyrinth: Jorge Luis Borges
- Transformer Man: Neil Young
- In My Language: Mel Baggs
- A Little Learning Is a Dangerous Thing: Alexander Pope
- By and for Equals: Nadia Duguay and Exeko
Lesson 9: Nothing about Us without Us
- What Barb Goode Taught Me
- Climate Striking: Greta Thunberg
- Independent Living: Ed Roberts
- Accidental Activist: Alice Wong
- Manifesto for Citizenship: Carmen Papalia
- Disability Rocks: Heavy Load
- The Equality Effect: Fiona Sampson
- Breaking Bad Barriers: RJ Mitte
- Everything Is about Us: Carla Qualtrough
Lesson 10: There Is No Independence without Interdependence
- What Powell River Taught Me
- Becoming Human: Jean Vanier
- Love’s Labor: Eva Kittay
- Purple, Green, and Yellow: Robert Munsch
- Moonbeams: Ian Brown
- The Four Walls of Her Freedom: Donna Thomson
- The Untouchables: Philippe Pozzo di Borgo and Abdel Sellou
- Poem for Michael: Kirsteen Main
- There Is No Independence without Interdependence: Bonnie Sherr Klein