{"id":245183,"date":"2023-10-04T15:46:15","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T15:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/facingdisability.com\/?p=245183"},"modified":"2023-10-04T21:17:41","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T21:17:41","slug":"sitting-pretty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/facingdisability.com\/blog\/sitting-pretty","title":{"rendered":"Sitting Pretty:"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rebekah Taussig’s book, Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body<\/em><\/a>, is filtered through her own experiences. She has been paralyzed since she was 3 years old.<\/p>\n

In the preface Taussig says that she is “not \u2014 by any stretch of the imagination \u2014 the representative of all disabled people.”<\/p>\n

Taussig continues, “I would be doing all of us a great disservice if I led you to believe the conversation starts and ends with bodies and experiences like mine.”<\/p>\n

In selecting her 2020 memoir for the One-Book project in Bakersfield, CA, organizers took a similar cue, packing the programming with a variety of community groups and speakers who represent different types of disabilities. It\u2019s an unusual choice for a One-Book selection.<\/p>\n

In recent years, One-Book community reading programs have had a surge in popularity. Typically offered by local libraries, these projects serve as a unifying force within communities, furthering a shared connection to literature through reading and discussion.<\/p>\n

Lynne Kemmer the local One-Book coordinator says, “Taussig specifically mentions seeing disability depicted as monstrous or angelic. Her experience is to tell her story and how it’s very complex but also very ordinary.”<\/p>\n

In offering everyday stories of her life, she aims to show the eye-opening details of living with a disability. “She’s a fierce advocate for the need for more stories and more voices, to understand the diversity of humanity,\u201d Kemmer also says.<\/p>\n

Choosing this book is a step in that direction.<\/p>\n

To read more about Rebekah\u2019s life and story see our 2020 blogpost about her by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In offering everyday stories of her life, she aims to show the eye-opening details of living with a disability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":245188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/facingdisability.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245183"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/facingdisability.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/facingdisability.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/facingdisability.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/facingdisability.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245183"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/facingdisability.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245202,"href":"https:\/\/facingdisability.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245183\/revisions\/245202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/facingdisability.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/facingdisability.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/facingdisability.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/facingdisability.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}