Beautiful people : my thirteen truths about disability
(2024)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
NEW 362.4092/BLAKE,M
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Hachette Go, 2024
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
xiv, 256 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780306830426, 0306830426 :, 0306830426, 9780306830426
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
In the summer of 2019, journalist Melissa Blake penned an op-ed for CNN Opinion. A conservative pundit caught wind of it, mentioning Blake's work in a YouTube video. What happened next is equal parts a searing view into society, how we collectively view and treat disabled people, and the making of an advocate. After a troll said that Blake should be banned from posting pictures of herself, she took to Twitter and defiantly posted three smiling selfies, all taken during a lovely vacation in the Big Apple