I'm so excited to start reading some amazing books this month! I've been eyeing these titles for a while now, and I just can't wait to dive in. First up, I have "Disability Visibility" by Alice Wong. I've already added this book to my collection, and I was thrilled to see it on the list. As someone who is both disabled and passionate about disability rights, I'm always excited to read books that showcase the experiences of disabled people. And let me tell you, this book did not disappoint. Alice's writing is engaging, insightful, and truly inspiring. She shares her own story as a disabled Asian American woman, and it's amazing to see how she navigates the complexities of identity, community, and advocacy.

I'm also super excited about "Disability Visibility" by Kia Brown, which I picked up at an essay reading event. I've been a huge fan of Kia's work, particularly her viral hashtag #disabledandcute, which celebrates disability in all its forms. Her writing is witty, charming, and unapologetic – just like her online persona. And what I love about this book is how it challenges the notion that disabled people live miserable lives. Kia shares her own experiences as a black woman with a disability, and it's amazing to see how she finds joy in the midst of adversity.

Another book that caught my eye is "Judith Heumann: An Unfinished Life". I watched the documentary "Camping" recently, and Judith's story really resonated with me. As someone who has been frustrated by the lack of representation of disabled activists in mainstream history books, I'm thrilled to read about this incredible woman's life. Judith's story is one of courage, resilience, and determination – she's a true champion for disability rights. And what I love about this book is how it humanizes her – we get to see behind the scenes of her activism, her relationships, and her personal struggles.

Lastly, I'm excited to read "Camp: Chronicles of Disability, Performance, and Belonging" by Nicole self-identified as disabled and queer woman who writes extensively on disability justice. In this book she is talking about there is a huge emphasis on accessibility in the world today. And also how it was too late for Judith Heumann's generation to experience the same level of accessibility that we do now. I'm really looking forward to reading more about Nicole's work and insights – her writing is thoughtful, nuanced, and truly inspiring.

Overall, these books are going to be a great addition to my reading list this month. They're all centered around disability rights, activism, and empowerment – themes that are so close to my heart. I'm excited to dive in and learn more about the experiences of disabled people, both historical and contemporary.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhi I'm Kendra Winchester welcome back to my channel and today I'm gonna be doing my TBR of books for a disability Pride Month now like I talked about in my last video July is disability Pride Month and I love our new flag which is only a few years old but I have so many books that I want to share and I know I'm not gonna be I'll read all of these this month but I wanted to put them out in your TBR s because I have been collecting them all for the last few months for a stack challenge so the friend and I are going to do and if that's already up I will link it down below I think it's going up near the end of the month but yeah alright so let's just jump into the books all but one are nonfiction because I really wanted to focus on people telling their own stories and so while this first book is own voices it's a not a whole not a nonfiction title so that is please read this leaflet carefully keep this leaflet you may need to read it again and this is a novel about a woman with chronic pain and I'm not sure what kind of chronic pain she has I think it's related to her uterus but I'm not sure I haven't read it yet because I haven't been able to find an audio book for it and as many of you know part of my disability is migraines and cognitive stuff that makes words hard to read so I listen to primarily audiobooks the rest of these have audiobooks but this one does not I'm very much looking forward to it can't read it yet but I still wanted to mention it so I actually had to wait like 30 minutes to film this because I was waiting for the last two to arrive the mailman just brought them to my door so this one is about us and this is essays from the disability series of the New York Times and so I didn't realize this existed until it was recommended to me by a random algorithm on a website and was like you have bought these things you will like this one too so I picked this up and I already found the audio and after reading a disability visibility very much interested in reading more anthologies by people disabilities their stories told in their own words the next one I have is from the periphery real life stories of disability this is an oral history project so this one has been recommended to me several different times I forget by who exactly because so many people separately have recommended this book to me and it's my wish list for ages so I just said just the co-ed by 'epic I was like now at the time Kendra by all of the things by people with disabilities so that's this one the next one I think I would have ordered from the UK but the audio book is available in the US I don't remember because as soon as I saw I knew I need to buy it and Jen Campbell actually recommended this book on her channel and that's just figured on fairytales disability and making space by manda ludecke and if you don't know there's a lot of problematic portrayals of people with bodily difference and fairytales in particular and that's kind of a thing that happens frequently Julie villains and stuff you think Disney and all the James Bond villains and stuff like that usually villains have some sort of bodily difference and so yeah investigates that particularly in fairytales and I'm very excited to listen to it it's on the top of my TBR for this month so this one is exile and pride disability Cronus and liberation by Eli Clare and this is written by genderqueer author that is writing about their experience with being a disabled person and being queer and I'm guessing just around that experience that they have so I don't remember where originally saw this but I do want to link a list by Karis books and more they have a great list of resources about and by people with disabilities so definitely check that out but this is disability history of the United States by Kim Nielsen and this is what it says a little 10 the history disability and the United States which is important because I didn't even know that the American Disabilities Act was a thing until like last year granted it's as old as I am so I would not have any memory of that passing but I appreciate it nonetheless because it for Psalm I need a book I've seen a lot of people recommend is Lea Lakshmi pieps Anna's Sam resina her book care work dreaming disability justice has been recommended several different places but they talk about a lot of their experience being queer and disabled and all the things put together and they had an amazing essay in disability visibility near the end of the collection and I was like I am so glad I've already bought their book like oh my goodness like that was really excited too because so many people who I bought books by we're already in that collection and it brought me a lot of joy and I already have the audiobook of this ready to go I'm just very excited obviously that's why I'm holding up this book good thing I'm very excited on the Internet it's genuine though so we'll go with it another person that had an essay and disability visibility that I picked up was Kia Browns the pretty one she had an essay in disability visibility I really enjoyed and I am so excited I had already picked up her memoir she is the creator of the viral hashtag disabled and cute which is amazing and she talks about the experience of being a black woman with a disability but and focusing on joy I I feel like a recurring theme is that people think that disabled people live miserable lives and the able-bodied people couldn't even imagine living like that that's no way to live like all of those things that people say there's extremely offensive and problematic ignores and erases all of the joy that we live and have and have to give and so I really appreciate her perspective and she really has been amazing during this pandemic she and one of my favorite Instagram and Twitter people crutches and spice I will link her down below as well they were on the same video of talking about their experience during kovat having a disability and all that goes with that and I really appreciated that so anyway I will link all of those things down below but definitely check out Kia Browns memoir the next book I have is a book that I added to this TBR because I watched the documentary camp and it will link that down below as well but this is a biography of Judith Heumann and this was sent to me and then I realized that she was featured a lot in the in the documentary because she's a huge disability rights activist and I've been really frustrated because I wanted to read about disability rights activists in my everyday textbooks and I didn't read ton of people who are disability rights activists who weren't able bodied I read about a lot of able-bodied disability rights activist but due to human I had polio as a child and so she's lived her life in a wheelchair and she talks about in school you know her parents first off were told by the doctor that they didn't have to live with the shame of having a disabled child and they should put her institution they didn't and she then went on to school but she wasn't allowed to go to the main school with all the regular kids and she talks a lot about that and the different interviews and documentaries that I've seen with her so I'm very excited to read her story as someone who was an activist in the 70s 80s 90s basically forever in my short life and you know I think this is really important for us as people with disabilities to see our heritage and see our elders who have grown up with disabilities and fought for a better world and we are now the ones living in that better world it was too late for them to live a childhood where they had accessible public education as much as they should have had but I really appreciate the work that Jesus came and has done and if you haven't seen the documentary camp I was sobbing by the end of that I had to watch it in two sittings because it was just a lot but it's incredibly important and I think that you after watching it so definitely examine your own feelings because I think there's a lot of things discussed in that that are really important for people who are both disabled as well as non-disabled people to discuss and think about so read this book check out the documentary all of the things so that it's the those are the books that I specifically bought for disability Pride Month and some of the things that we have had planned for this time period but I hope that you have found something that you were excited to read over the course these two videos I will be posting more reviews and different things of these books as I read them over on my Instagram link down below Thank You Dylan for all the noise you all want to see Dylan right yeah you know funny story quickly we originally got Dylan to be an emotional support animal for me and different things but um do you want to guess how supporting his of me and my emotional needs probably right that guess dare you are you supportive if he hates snuggling he hates comforting me when I'm upset but I start crying he's he's worried I'm very distressed checks on me and then he's done he doesn't sit there he doesn't like that high-pitched Keeney noise I'm in a lot of pain he's like nope oh I'll guard the door he's like the dads they used to wait out in the hallway when women were giving birth but he's so cute he's so cute aren't you okay well thank you for watching and I'll see the next one bye guyshi I'm Kendra Winchester welcome back to my channel and today I'm gonna be doing my TBR of books for a disability Pride Month now like I talked about in my last video July is disability Pride Month and I love our new flag which is only a few years old but I have so many books that I want to share and I know I'm not gonna be I'll read all of these this month but I wanted to put them out in your TBR s because I have been collecting them all for the last few months for a stack challenge so the friend and I are going to do and if that's already up I will link it down below I think it's going up near the end of the month but yeah alright so let's just jump into the books all but one are nonfiction because I really wanted to focus on people telling their own stories and so while this first book is own voices it's a not a whole not a nonfiction title so that is please read this leaflet carefully keep this leaflet you may need to read it again and this is a novel about a woman with chronic pain and I'm not sure what kind of chronic pain she has I think it's related to her uterus but I'm not sure I haven't read it yet because I haven't been able to find an audio book for it and as many of you know part of my disability is migraines and cognitive stuff that makes words hard to read so I listen to primarily audiobooks the rest of these have audiobooks but this one does not I'm very much looking forward to it can't read it yet but I still wanted to mention it so I actually had to wait like 30 minutes to film this because I was waiting for the last two to arrive the mailman just brought them to my door so this one is about us and this is essays from the disability series of the New York Times and so I didn't realize this existed until it was recommended to me by a random algorithm on a website and was like you have bought these things you will like this one too so I picked this up and I already found the audio and after reading a disability visibility very much interested in reading more anthologies by people disabilities their stories told in their own words the next one I have is from the periphery real life stories of disability this is an oral history project so this one has been recommended to me several different times I forget by who exactly because so many people separately have recommended this book to me and it's my wish list for ages so I just said just the co-ed by 'epic I was like now at the time Kendra by all of the things by people with disabilities so that's this one the next one I think I would have ordered from the UK but the audio book is available in the US I don't remember because as soon as I saw I knew I need to buy it and Jen Campbell actually recommended this book on her channel and that's just figured on fairytales disability and making space by manda ludecke and if you don't know there's a lot of problematic portrayals of people with bodily difference and fairytales in particular and that's kind of a thing that happens frequently Julie villains and stuff you think Disney and all the James Bond villains and stuff like that usually villains have some sort of bodily difference and so yeah investigates that particularly in fairytales and I'm very excited to listen to it it's on the top of my TBR for this month so this one is exile and pride disability Cronus and liberation by Eli Clare and this is written by genderqueer author that is writing about their experience with being a disabled person and being queer and I'm guessing just around that experience that they have so I don't remember where originally saw this but I do want to link a list by Karis books and more they have a great list of resources about and by people with disabilities so definitely check that out but this is disability history of the United States by Kim Nielsen and this is what it says a little 10 the history disability and the United States which is important because I didn't even know that the American Disabilities Act was a thing until like last year granted it's as old as I am so I would not have any memory of that passing but I appreciate it nonetheless because it for Psalm I need a book I've seen a lot of people recommend is Lea Lakshmi pieps Anna's Sam resina her book care work dreaming disability justice has been recommended several different places but they talk about a lot of their experience being queer and disabled and all the things put together and they had an amazing essay in disability visibility near the end of the collection and I was like I am so glad I've already bought their book like oh my goodness like that was really excited too because so many people who I bought books by we're already in that collection and it brought me a lot of joy and I already have the audiobook of this ready to go I'm just very excited obviously that's why I'm holding up this book good thing I'm very excited on the Internet it's genuine though so we'll go with it another person that had an essay and disability visibility that I picked up was Kia Browns the pretty one she had an essay in disability visibility I really enjoyed and I am so excited I had already picked up her memoir she is the creator of the viral hashtag disabled and cute which is amazing and she talks about the experience of being a black woman with a disability but and focusing on joy I I feel like a recurring theme is that people think that disabled people live miserable lives and the able-bodied people couldn't even imagine living like that that's no way to live like all of those things that people say there's extremely offensive and problematic ignores and erases all of the joy that we live and have and have to give and so I really appreciate her perspective and she really has been amazing during this pandemic she and one of my favorite Instagram and Twitter people crutches and spice I will link her down below as well they were on the same video of talking about their experience during kovat having a disability and all that goes with that and I really appreciated that so anyway I will link all of those things down below but definitely check out Kia Browns memoir the next book I have is a book that I added to this TBR because I watched the documentary camp and it will link that down below as well but this is a biography of Judith Heumann and this was sent to me and then I realized that she was featured a lot in the in the documentary because she's a huge disability rights activist and I've been really frustrated because I wanted to read about disability rights activists in my everyday textbooks and I didn't read ton of people who are disability rights activists who weren't able bodied I read about a lot of able-bodied disability rights activist but due to human I had polio as a child and so she's lived her life in a wheelchair and she talks about in school you know her parents first off were told by the doctor that they didn't have to live with the shame of having a disabled child and they should put her institution they didn't and she then went on to school but she wasn't allowed to go to the main school with all the regular kids and she talks a lot about that and the different interviews and documentaries that I've seen with her so I'm very excited to read her story as someone who was an activist in the 70s 80s 90s basically forever in my short life and you know I think this is really important for us as people with disabilities to see our heritage and see our elders who have grown up with disabilities and fought for a better world and we are now the ones living in that better world it was too late for them to live a childhood where they had accessible public education as much as they should have had but I really appreciate the work that Jesus came and has done and if you haven't seen the documentary camp I was sobbing by the end of that I had to watch it in two sittings because it was just a lot but it's incredibly important and I think that you after watching it so definitely examine your own feelings because I think there's a lot of things discussed in that that are really important for people who are both disabled as well as non-disabled people to discuss and think about so read this book check out the documentary all of the things so that it's the those are the books that I specifically bought for disability Pride Month and some of the things that we have had planned for this time period but I hope that you have found something that you were excited to read over the course these two videos I will be posting more reviews and different things of these books as I read them over on my Instagram link down below Thank You Dylan for all the noise you all want to see Dylan right yeah you know funny story quickly we originally got Dylan to be an emotional support animal for me and different things but um do you want to guess how supporting his of me and my emotional needs probably right that guess dare you are you supportive if he hates snuggling he hates comforting me when I'm upset but I start crying he's he's worried I'm very distressed checks on me and then he's done he doesn't sit there he doesn't like that high-pitched Keeney noise I'm in a lot of pain he's like nope oh I'll guard the door he's like the dads they used to wait out in the hallway when women were giving birth but he's so cute he's so cute aren't you okay well thank you for watching and I'll see the next one bye guys\n"