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The Ragged Edge Anthology: The Disability Experience from the Pages of the First Fifteen Years of The Disability Rag

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"Reading The Ragged Edge [anthology] is like sitting in on a vigorous, sometimes funny, and often irreverent roundtable discussion of the issues that most concern all humanity, disabled and nondisabled, whether they admit it or not. Some of the voices are reflective, some sad, some furious, but none will lull you to sleep. On the contrary, you'll feel ready to roll on out and transform the world."-- Nancy Mairs, author of Plaintext, Carnal Acts, Ordinary Time and Waist High In the World

Table of Contents - Ragged Edge anthology

INTRODUCTION ... page ix

PREFACE: Why We Do What We Do ... page xiii
Cass Irvin

 

COMING TOGETHER

Aphasia ... page 1
Seeking the Disabled Community ... page 4
Edward L. Hooper

Like Squabbling Cubs ... page 7
Mary Jane Owen

Malcolm Teaches Us, Too ... page 11
Marta Russell

Disability Culture Rap ... page 15
Cheryl Marie Wade

 

IMAGE AND IMAGES

Survivor ... page 19
S. L. Rosen

Thoughts on Thinking Differently ... page 22
Tanis Doe

Boutonnieres ... page 25
John R. Woodward

Toward a Theory of Radical Disability Photography ... page 28
Anne Finger

Giving It Back ... page 34
Cris Matthews

Questioning Continuum ... page 42
Carol J. Gill

 

THIS IS OPPRESSION

The First Taste ... page 50
Cass Irvin

The Room of Pain and Loneliness ... page 53
Edward L. Hooper

Disconfirmation... page 57
Billy Golfus

Cowboy Justice in Tiburon... page 64
Arthur Jacobs

Hate ... page 67
Barbara Faye Waxman

 

PRIVATE MATTERS

Public Stripping ... page 73
Lisa Blumberg

New Insights ... page 78
Edward L. Hooper

It's Time to Politicize Our Sexual Oppression ... page 82
Barbara Faye Waxman

It Ain't Exactly Sexy ... page 88
Cheryl Marie Wade

 

POEMS

Excavation ... page 91
Kenny Fries

Lunch Break ... page 96
Laura Hershey

Reconciliation ... page 98
Cheryl Marie Wade

Reading Braille ... page 100
Mary McGinnis

White Caps ... page 102
Margaret Robison

Thanksgiving Day Feast ... page 103
Susan McBride

Travelling... page 104
Katherine Simpson

Like Walking on the Moon... page 108
Nancy Scott

Now and Then Again ... page 109
Susan Hansell

Trajectories ... page 112
Brian Hartshorn

Becoming Beautiful ... page 114
Nancy Bigelow Clark

 

THE PITY PLOY

And the Greatest of These Is Charity ... page 115
Anne Finger

A Test of Wills: Jerry Lewis, Jerry's Orphans and the Telethon ... page 120
Mary Johnson

Time to Grow Up ... page 131
Julie Shaw Cole and Mary Johnson

 

ADAPTABILITY AND OTHER ACTIONS

On the Barricades with ADAPT ... page 137
Mary Johnson

Wade Blank's Liberated Community ... page 149
Laura Hershey

The Power of One Person ... page 156
Mary Johnson

 

ARE WE BEING SERVED?

The Do-gooder ... page 165
Billy Golfus

Why the Nation Doesn't Have Attendant Services ... page 173
Mary Johnson

Auschwitz on Sesame Street ... page 178
Lucy Gwin

 

LIFE AND DEATH

Unanswered Questions ... page 186
Mary Johnson

Suicide: Political or Personal ... page 202
Julie Reiskin

Silence on the Psychiatric Holocast ... page 208
Steve Mendelsohn

Springtime for Hitler ... page 212
Kathi Wolfe

Eugenics and Reproductive Choice ... page 218
Lisa Blumberg

It Can Happen Here ... page 230
John R. Woodward

 

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS ... page 236