{"product_id":"rebekah-taussig-sitting-pretty-9780062936806","title":"Sitting Pretty","description":"A\n\u003cbr\u003e\nmemoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account\n\u003cbr\u003e\n@sitting_pretty Rebekah Taussig, processing a lifetime of memories to paint a\n\u003cbr\u003e\nbeautiful, nuanced portrait of a body that looks and moves differently than\n\u003cbr\u003e\nmost. Growing\n\u003cbr\u003e\nup as a paralyzed girl during the 90s and early 2000s, Rebekah Taussig only saw\n\u003cbr\u003e\ndisability depicted as something monstrous (The Hunchback of Notre Dame),\n\u003cbr\u003e\ninspirational (Helen Keller), or angelic (Forrest Gump). None of this felt\n\u003cbr\u003e\nright; and as she got older, she longed for more stories that allowed\n\u003cbr\u003e\ndisability to be complex and ordinary, uncomfortable and fine, painful and\n\u003cbr\u003e\nfulfilling. Writing\n\u003cbr\u003e\nabout the rhythms and textures of what it means to live in a body that doesn’t\n\u003cbr\u003e\nfit, Rebekah reflects on everything from the complications of kindness and\n\u003cbr\u003e\ncharity, living both independently and dependently, experiencing intimacy, and\n\u003cbr\u003e\nhow the pervasiveness of ableism in our everyday media directly translates to\n\u003cbr\u003e\neveryday life.\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nDisability\n\u003cbr\u003e\naffects all of us, directly or indirectly, at one point or another. By\n\u003cbr\u003e\nexploring this truth in poignant and lyrical essays, Taussig illustrates the\n\u003cbr\u003e\nneed for more stories and more voices to understand the diversity of humanity.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nSitting Pretty challenges us as a society to be patient and vigilant, practical\n\u003cbr\u003e\nand imaginative, kind and relentless, as we set to work to write an entirely\n\u003cbr\u003e\ndifferent story.","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Used - good","offer_id":53409223410006,"sku":"9780062936806-G","price":6.59,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/rebekah-taussig-sitting-pretty-9780062936806","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}