<b>An eye-opening portrait of the diverse disability community as it is today and how disability attitudes activism and representation have evolved since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)</b><br><br>In <i>Disability Pride</i> disabled journalist Ben Mattlin weaves together interviews and reportage to introduce a cavalcade of individuals ideas and events in engaging fast-paced prose. He traces the generation that came of age after the ADA reshaped America and how it is influencing the future. He documents how autistic self-advocacy and the neurodiversity movement upended views of those whose brains work differently. He lifts the veil on a thriving disability culture—from social media to high fashion Hollywood to Broadway—showing how the politics of beauty for those with marginalized body types and facial features is sparking widespread change.<br><br>He also explores the movement’s shortcomings particularly the erasure of nonwhite and LGBTQIA+ people that helped give rise to Disability Justice. He delves into systemic ableism in health care the right-to-die movement institutionalization and the scourge of subminimum-wage labor that some call legalized slavery. And he finds glimmers of hope in how disabled people never give up their fight for parity and fair play.<br><br>Beautifully written without anger or pity <i>Disability Pride</i> is a revealing account of an often misunderstood movement and identity an inclusive reexamination of society’s treatment of those it deems <i>different</i>.
