This page brings together a selection of resources for Disability History Month, offering opportunities to read, watch and listen to content that explores disability history, lived experience, and key themes based on student recommendations. They provide a great opportunity to explore the resources and reflect on the topics raised.

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Read

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• From the Periphery: Real-Life Stories of Disability (2019)

• Haben (2019)

• Deaf Utopia (2023)

• The Boy Who Lived (2024)

• Disability Visibility (2020)

• Autism in Adults (2021)

• Brilliant Imperfections, Eli Clare (2017)

• Neurodiversity, Judy Singer (2017)

• NeuroTribes, Steve Silbernan (2016)

• Carework: Dreaming Disability Justice, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (2018)

• Downs: The History of a Disability (2011)

• Different, Not Less (2024)

• Not so Different, Shane Burcaw (2017)

• Poor Little Sick Girls, Ione Gamble (2023)

• Ramping up Rights, Rachel Charlton - Dailey (2025)

• Places I’ve Taken My Body, Molly McCully Brown (2021)

• Sitting Pretty, Rebekah Taussig (2021)

• Stim, Lizzie Huxley-Jones (2026)

• Studying with Dyslexia, Janet Godwin (2025)

• The Anti-Ableist Manifesto, Tiffany Yu (2024)

• The Dyslexic Advantage, Brock L. Eide (2023)

• The Gift of Dyslexia, Ronald D. Davis (2010)

• Injury Impoverished, Nate Holdren (2020)

• The Bodymind Problem and the Possibilities of Pain, Margaret Price (2014, academic paper)

• Odd Girl Out, Laura James (2018)

• At the Gates, Naomi Lawson Jacobs and Emily Richardson (2022)

• Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist, Judith Heumann 

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Watch

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• Please Stand By

• The Peanut Butter Falcon

• A Beautiful Mind

• x+y

• Sound of Metal

• CODA

• My Left Foot

• Then Barbara Met Alan

• A Space in Time

• Crip Camp

• The Silent Child

• Atypical (TV Show)

• Loop (Short Film)

• Wonder (Short Film)

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Listen

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• Disorderland

• Uniquely Human

• Power not Pity

• Bad Attitudes

• Mad in America: Rethinking Mental Health

• Airing Pain

• Access All: Disability News and Talk

• Disability Horizons

• Disability Matters

• Disability Talks: Don’t Dis My Ability

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You’ll find many of the books in our community library in Devonshire House – why not check it out next time you’re passing The Greenhouse