Disability Visibility is a collection of various texts documenting the lived experiences of disabled people. These texts include essays, poetry, transcriptions, and blog posts about what it means to exist as a disabled person to each author. This source provides a first-person perspective on justice and injustice and forces the audience to reckon with ideas and truths they may not personally encounter or have ever considered.

This book was published in 2020 by Vintage and edited by Alice Wong, a disability rights activist and founder of the Disability Visibility Project. It discusses disability, accessibility, culture, and activism. The resource is organized with interpretative titles of being, becoming, doing, and connecting which can make it difficult to find a specific source or entry. There is an introduction to contextualize the book and information about the contributors, but no references. Each entry is unique to its author and the story they want to tell. This book is in my library.

Care Work is a collection of essays by the same author detailing their thoughts on the disability justice movement which was, at the time, building momentum. The essays cover topics ranging from emotional labor, chronic pain/illness, accountability, and abuse. This relates to disability justice by its subject matter in a similar narrative tone as Disability Visibility. This source can provide an understanding of how theoretical disability justice frameworks are applied to the everyday lived experiences of one person.

This book was published in 2018 by Arsenal Pulp Press and written by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, a cultural/memory worker, writer, and activist on disability and the transformative justice movement. Due to the narrative style, there is little organization besides different essay titles, but there are resource and reference pages at the end of the book. The narrative style makes it an easy entrance point to ideas and topics. I found this book searching on Google for “books by disabled people AND disability justice./p>

Crip Kinship is a collection of essays and reflections on the work created out of Sins Invalid, a performance-based project dedicated to celebrating the work of disabled POC and gender minorities around the world. The essays reflect on the author’s hope for a more liberated future. This collection showcases the work of disability justice from a primarily creative perspective through the work invested and projects produced by Sins Invalid.

The book was published in 2021 by Arsenal Pulp Press and written by Shayda Kafai, a professor of Ethnic and Women’s Studies at CalPoly Pomona. The book reflects on artists with disabilities and political art. The information is organized by essay topic with in-text citations. This source was found via the Rebecca Crown Library searching for “disability justice” and books published between 2020-2024.

The Right to Maim is a book that examines the “concept of debility—bodily injury and social exclusion brought on by economic and political factors” (publisher’s note) through a series of essays covering the violence policies enacted against Palestinians. This book directly ties disability justice to geopolitics providing the audience with an understanding of disabling as a tool used and promoted by governments and regimes to actively harm individuals.

The book was published in 2017 by Duke University Press and is written by Jasbir K. Puar, a professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University. The book is about the intersection of social theory and disability through state-supported policies and violence. It is organized into four sections that discuss trans community, capitalism, and the occupation of Palestine. There are notes, a bibliography, and an index to assist the reader’s interaction with the text. Based on the preview text, the audience is primarily academic with a basic understanding of social theory. A general reader may be able to read the text with slight difficulty or additional research/context. This resource was found through my local independent feminist bookstore, Charis Books. They have a booklist for disability/anti-ableism.

The Routledge Handbook of Disability Activism is a handbook covering disability activism on a global scale, examining the policy goals of the movements, and future possibilities. The handbook relates to disability justice by engaging with activist work to enact change on a policy level across various institutions and governments. This resource was included to examine the tactics and effects used by activist movements to create tangible change in the world.

This handbook was published in 2019 by Taylor & Francis and edited by Maria Berghs, Tsitsi Chataika, Yahya El-Lahib, and Kudakwashe Dube. The first three editors are all professors within social/medical anthropology, social work, and education. Dube is the former CEO of Action on Disability and Development International, an organization working to support the global disability justice movement. The book is organized into broad sections moving through contextualizing disability rights, the current state of disability rights, social media and campus activism, international activism, and future challenges and opportunities. Each entry is organized with individual headings and references. There is also a list of contributors at the beginning and an index at the back. This book was found through the Rebecca Crown library database with the search terms “disability justice OR disability activism” and filtered for only books within 2016-2024.

This handbook focuses on disability rights in America by providing frameworks and primary evidence as it moves through the history, current landscape, and key players. This relates to disability justice by providing a lens into the United States disability rights movement and can give concrete entry points to the topic via individual issues, organizations, or individuals. The data and other reference works also potentially provide additional sources for an academic audience.

The handbook was published in 2019 by Bloomsbury Publishing USA and authored by Michael Rembis. Rembis is the director of disability studies at the University at Buffalo. The book is organized into background and history, current disability rights issues, different identities to view disability, important players, and resources and data. The resource organization is logical and provides a chronology, glossary, and index at the back. The sections are structured differently (chapter, article, tables), so there is no specific format for each entry. The handbook can serve general and academic audiences. This book was found through the Rebecca Crown library database with the search terms “disability justice OR disability activism” and filtered for only books within 2016-2024.

The International Journal of Disability and Social Justice is an interdisciplinary journal covering disability studies and efforts to address ableism, obstacles, and social injustices. This is a great source for articles reflecting global disability justice efforts to address related issues.

The journal was first released in 2021 by Pluto Journals and edited by Angharad E. Beckett, a professor at Leeds University and a sociologist with research focusing on oppression and resistance practices. The journal is published three times a year with the most recent edition published in September 2024. The articles are more technical, as it is intended for practitioners and academics who already have a level of subject matter expertise. This journal was found via a Google Search for “disability justice journals.”