Year of the tiger: An Activist’s Life (Vintage, 2022) by Alice Wong (editor of Disability Visibility) is funny and angry and silly and deadly sobering and so much more. It’s a collection of essays, interviews, and images on subjects ranging from accessible and inviting coffee experiences to the Chinese Lunar New Year, from media representations of disabled people to the…
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The great Alice Wong’s Disability Visibility newsletter hit my inbox last year with a book giveaway of The Plant Hunter: A Scientist’s Quest for Nature’s Next Medicines, by Cassandra Leah Quave. It’s not too often that my interest in disability culture crosses with my lay-person’s obsession with plant chemistry, so my curiosity was immediately piqued when I read the blurb…
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On September 7 at 7PM EST, I’m delighted to be having a conversation reprise with James Tate Hill–but with a difference! In June, we discussed my book, There Plant Eyes, and this time we’ll be talking about his great memoir, Blind Man’s Bluff…
At Home With Literati: James Tate Hill and M. Leona Godin
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Sep 07, 7:00 PM…
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