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"An eye-opening portrait of the diverse disability community as it is today and how attitudes, activism, and representation have evolved since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)"-- Provided by publisher.

"An eye-opening portrait of the diverse disability community as it is today and how attitudes, activism, and representation have evolved since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). In Disability Pride, disabled journalist Ben Mattlin weaves together interviews and reportage to introduce a cavalcade of individuals, ideas, and events in engaging, fast-paced prose. He traces the generation that came of age after the ADA reshaped America, and how it is influencing the future. He documents how autistic self-advocacy and the neurodiversity movement upended views of those whose brains work differently. He lifts the veil on a thriving disability culture--from social media to high fashion, Hollywood to Broadway--showing how the politics of beauty for those with marginalized body types and facial features is sparking widespread change. He also explores the movement's shortcomings, particularly the erasure of nonwhite and LGBTQIA+ people that helped give rise to Disability Justice. He delves into systemic ableism in health care, the right-to-die movement, institutionalization, and the scourge of subminimum-wage labor that some call legalized slavery. And he finds glimmers of hope in how disabled people never give up their fight for parity and fair play."-- Provided by publisher.

Introduction: Too defiant?

Creating rights

Successes, disappointments, and shortcomings

What is pride

and why does it matter?

Disability studies and the afterlife of cultural icons

Neurodiversity and autistic self-advocacy

Disability justice

Visibility, community, and context

The politics of beauty

Casting and miscasting

What's so funny about disability?

Health care disparities: Lessons of COVID-19

Not dead yet vs. the right to die

"Easy to get in [but] impossible to get out" : The struggle for deinstitutionalization and Medicaid dollars

Sparks of activism everywhere

Epilogue: Trending or truly empowering.

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