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The Disability Rag

COMPLETE ARCHIVES

1980-1996

Complete text version
on fully-searchable CD-ROM

Now collected on a fully-searchable CD-ROM -- thousands of articles, letters, news stories, fiction and poetry.Perfect for disability studies programs, for organizations, for schools and universities, for public libraries -- or your home library. MORE.

CD-ROM | ASCII | $299.00 | Copyright 1980-1996
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Disability Awareness

- Do It Right!

Your all-in-one how-to guide: Tips, techniques & handouts for a successful Awareness Day from the Ragged Edge Online community

Handbook edited by Mary Johnson.
Short, easy-to-read chapters show you how to carry out 6 specific types of activities, how to handle follow-up discussion and even how to spur social change. MORE.

128 pp.Large-format paperback (8.5" x 11"). | ASCII | $19.95 | ISBN 0972118918 | Copyright 2006
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Make Them Go Away

Clint Eastwood, Christopher Reeve & the Case Against Disability Rights

Nonfiction by Mary Johnson.
In the spring of 2000, actor Clint Eastwood took on the 10-year-old Americans with Disabilities Act. His Mission Ranch hotel in Carmel, California, had been sued for access violations under the law, and he'd been slapped with a lawsuit he'd never seen coming, he said.... MORE.

296 pp. Paperback. | ASCII Diskette. | $16.95 | ISBN 097211890X | Copyright 2003
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To Ride the Public's Buses

To Ride the Public's Buses

The Fight That Built A Movement

Edited by Mary Johnson & Barrett Shaw. Photos by Tom Olin. Foreword by Stephanie Thomas.
The issue may be lifts on buses. But what we are doing is building a movement ... MORE.

200 pp. Paperback. | $17.95 | ISBN 0-9627064-9-3 | Copyright 2001
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Getting Life

Getting Life

Fiction

Fiction by Julie Shaw Cole.
"That light hits the side of the red roof at a different time each afternoon. I sit in the same place by the window every day. This window is on the other side of the street ... MORE.

303 pp. Paperback. | Audiotape. | $16.00 | ISBN 0962706485 | Copyright 2000
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Desert Walking

Poems

by Kenny Fries.
From Exodus to Eliot's The Waste Land the desert has been the site for spiritual quests that balance a deep mourning for the human condition against a longing for joy and transcendence. ... MORE.

96 pp. Paperback. | ASCII Diskette. | $15.95 | ISBN 0962706477 | Copyright 2000
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Anesthesia

Poems

by Kenny Fries.
This first full-length collection of poems by award-winning poet Kenny Fries explores how oppression and loss affect language, memory and desire. Fries not only writes about his experience of living with a congenital physical disability but also focuses on how his disability has affected his life ... MORE.

83 pp. Paperback. | ASCII Diskette. | $14.95 | ISBN 0962706469 | Copyright 1996
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The Ragged Edge

The Disability Experience from the Pages of the First Fifteen Years of The Disability Rag.

Anthology edited by Barrett Shaw.
The Disability Rag is the voice of a mighty revolution, and this stunning collection from its first 15 years will become an invaluable primer ... MORE.

238 pp. Paperback. | ASCII Diskette. | $18.95 | ISBN 0962706450 | Copyright 1994
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Making News

How to Get News Coverage of Disability Rights Issues

Nonfiction by Tari Susan Hartman & Mary Johnson.
Worried about anti-disability spin in the media? Fight back -- make your own news! Get on the front pages ... MORE.

165 pp. Paperback. | ASCII Diskette. | $10.95 | ISBN 0962706434 | Copyright 1993
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Praise for other Ragged Edge titles...
Anesthesia . . .

Tough-minded and sparely written, the poems take their source from a clear and calm intelligence that projects an aura of affirmation in the face of suffering and loss.
    • Colette Inez




Desert Walking . . .

These spare, precise poems chart the complexities of human intimacy with both delicacy and brashness. Their mix of candor and tenderness is memorable and moving.
    • Chase Twichell, author of The Snow Watcher




Getting Life . . .

Getting Life has joined Jean Stewart's THE BODY'S MEMORY and Anne Finger's THE BONE TRUTH as the best novels I have read about the daily experience of disability. It should be in every CIL and anyone interested in the state of disability consciousness in the new millennium should find a copy.
    • Steven E. Brown, Institute on Disability Culture




It is fiction, but it likely describes the lives of many persons with disabilities. The reader Emily is very funny, imaginative and downright spunky.
    • Reba Pierce, Kentucky Monthly





Make Them
Go Away . . .

Johnson deconstructs arguments against disability rights from the likes of Clint Eastwood as well as more ordinary folk, and she constructs powerful reasons why we all benefit from inclusion."
    • Booklist






The Ragged Edge anthology . . .

"The Disability Rag is the voice of a mighty revolution, and this stunning collection from its first 15 years will become an invaluable primer for anyone who wants to understand the new thinking of the disability rights movement. Here are the urgent, spirited and provocative stories that have changed the way people -- disabled and nondisabled -- have come to view what it means to have a disability."
    • Joseph. P. Shapiro, author of No Pity: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement



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