Necessarily interdisciplinary and diverse, this collection weaves together work from scholars from a variety of disciplinary homes, into a broader conversation about exploring media artifacts in relation to disability. Introduces key ideas and offers a sense of the new frontiers and questions in the emerging field of disability media studies Disability Media Studies articulates the formation of a new field of study, based in the rich traditions of media, cultural, and disability studies. Moving, funny, and beautifully written, HandiLand: The Crippest Place on Earth is the definitive study of disability in contemporary literature for young readers.Īuthor: Elizabeth Ellcessor,Bill Kirkpatrick As a disabled person and parent of children with disabilities, Wheeler offers an inside look into families who collude with their kids in shaping a better world. The book moves through the public spaces young people with disabilities have entered, including schools, nature, and online communities. Wheeler invokes the fantasy of HandiLand, an ideal society ready for young people with disabilities before they get there, as a yardstick to measure how far we’ve come and how far we still need to go toward the goal of total inclusion. HandiLand places this movement from sidekick to hero in the political contexts of disability rights movements in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Ghana. These books take what others regard as weaknesses-for instance, Harry Potter’s headaches or Hazel Lancaster’s oxygen tank-and redefine them as part of the hero’s journey. HandiLand looks at young adult novels, fantasy series, graphic memoirs, and picture books of the last 25 years in which characters with disabilities take center stage for the first time. Poignant and uproarious - think Cyanide and Happiness but with story-lines, cake and dogs. It includes stories about her rambunctious childhood the highs and mostly lows of owning a mentally challenged dog and a moving and darkly comic account of her struggles with depression. Now her full-colour debut book chronicles the many "learning experiences" Brosh has endured as a result of her own character flaws. Brosh's website receives millions of visitors a month and hundreds of thousands of per day. She accompanies these with naive drawings using Paint on her PC. She tells fantastically funny, wise stories about the mishaps of her everyday life, with titles like 'Why Dogs Don't Understand Basic Concepts Like Moving' and 'The God of Cake'. Hyperbole and A Half is a blog written by a 20-something American girl called Allie Brosh. Fully illustrated with over 50% new material. Take a moment, head over to her blog, and perhaps you will see yourself or someone you know in one of the scenes, struggling to make it through the days when the depression is overpowering.Hilarious stories about life's mishaps from the creator of the immensely popular blog 'Hyperbole and a Half'. I strongly recommend you read this, if only to understand the lived experience of anxiety and depression.īelow is an excerpt from her strip: Adventures in Depression, where she details her spiral into a severe depressive episode. She shares how things that seem so ordinary, so normal to other people, take on gigantic proportions in times of depression. She is searingly honest about how hard all of it is and the monumental effort it took. She talks her spiral to rock bottom and then some and then about what helped her lift herself from that place. I find that this blog makes for practical and hopeful reading - she talks about being unable to get out of the house, reply to emails, buying groceries or even eat.
In her blog entries, she uses cartoons and words to describe her life-long experiences of living with anxiety and depression, all with a wry and humorous take.
Hyperbole And A Half is a blog run by Allie Brosh, who is also the author of a book by the same title - the blog is not super active now but it has an extensive set of archives to dive into.
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