{"product_id":"sitting-pretty-the-view-from-my-ordinary-resilient-disabled-body-rebekah-taussig","title":"Sitting Pretty: The View From my Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body;  Rebekah Taussig","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Rebekah Taussig, processing a lifetime of memories to paint a beautiful, nuanced portrait of a body that looks and moves differently than most.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGrowing up as a paralyzed girl during the 90s and early 2000s, Rebekah Taussig only saw disability depicted as something monstrous (The Hunchback of Notre Dame), inspirational (Helen Keller), or angelic (Forrest Gump). None of this felt right; and as she got older, she longed for more stories that allowed disability to be complex and ordinary, uncomfortable and fine, painful and fulfilling.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWriting about the rhythms and textures of what it means to live in a body that doesn’t fit, Rebekah reflects on everything from the complications of kindness and charity, living both independently and dependently, experiencing intimacy, and how the pervasiveness of ableism in our everyday media directly translates to everyday life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDisability affects all of us, directly or indirectly, at one point or another. By exploring this truth in poignant and lyrical essays, Taussig illustrates the need for more stories and more voices to understand the diversity of humanity. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSitting Pretty\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e challenges us as a society to be patient and vigilant, practical and imaginative, kind and relentless, as we set to work to write an entirely different story.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAugust 25, 2020\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRebekah Taussig, Phd, is a Kansas City writer and teacher with her doctorate in Creative Nonfiction and Disability Studies.  She runs the instagram platform @sitting_pretty, where she crafts \"mini-memoirs\" about her daily life.  She lives in a tiny, old house with her fussy family of tender hearted snugglers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"FREEAIR Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46446088454466,"sku":"","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/8735\/3154\/files\/sitpretty.jpg?v=1692888703","url":"https:\/\/shop.freeairbooks.com\/products\/sitting-pretty-the-view-from-my-ordinary-resilient-disabled-body-rebekah-taussig","provider":"FREEAIR Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}