The library’s DEI Book Discussion Series with Irondequoit Town Supervisor Andraé Evans will continue in July with a Disability Pride Month Book Discussion about Disability Visibility, which was edited by Alice Wong.
Alice Wong is the founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project, an online community dedicated to creating, sharing, and amplifying disability media and culture. The discussion will be held on Wednesday, July 31, at 6:30 PM.
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BOOK DESCRIPTION: Disability Visibility is a collection of first-person writing on the joys and challenges of the modern disability experience. According to the last census, one in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some are visible, some are hidden – but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture. Activist Alice Wong brings together an urgent, galvanizing collection of personal essays by contemporary disabled writers that celebrates and documents disability culture in the now. It looks to the future and past with hope and love.
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Copies of Disability Visibility are available at the Circulation Desk on the first floor, or they can be reserved by calling 585-336-6060 when the library is open. The book is also available to download as an audiobook through Overdrive/Libby.
If you’d like to participate in the discussion, please register now through our Event Calendar.
The DEI Book Discussion Series will continue later this year with Radium Girls by Cy (August 28) and I Can Make This Promise by Christine Day (November 20).
Published on July 5, 2024.
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