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Record Nr.

UNISA996647824603316

Autore

Mills Mara

Titolo

How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic

Pubbl/distr/stampa

2025

New York : , : New York University Press, , 2025

©2025

ISBN

9781479830909

1479830909

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (402 pages)

Classificazione

LAW031000LIT004020SOC052000

Altri autori (Persone)

KornsteinHarris

GinsburgFaye D

RappRayna

HeumannJudith

YongEd

Disciplina

362.109747/1

Soggetti

People with disabilities - New York (State) - New York

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023 - New York (State) - New York

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part I Living with "Disproportionate Risk" -- 1 "We Were Sick, and They Punished Us Even More" -- 2 Second-Class Noncitizens -- 3 Housing as Health Care -- 4 From Inaccessibility to Pathologized Mobility on New York City's Public Transit -- 5 Vent -- 6 High Stakes Schooling -- 7 Care Work, Creativity, and Unplanned Survival in the Time of COVID -- Part II Disability Communities -- 8 When Postviral Goes Viral -- 9 Blind New Yorkers, Online and Offline, during the Pandemic -- 10 The Everyday Lives of Qilao during the Pandemic -- 11 "We Want Cop-Free Communities" -- 12 Mental Health and Black Futurity -- 13 Disability Justice, Material Needs, and Mutual Aid -- 14 Making Art in Bed -- 15 Reflections on Being a Disability Reporter during the Pandemic -- Coda -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Acknowledgments -- About the Contributors -- Index



Sommario/riassunto

"How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic chronicles experiences of disabled and chronically-ill people in New York City during the COVID-19 pandemic, tracking wide-ranging themes: incarceration, low wage and essential work, Black mental health, anti-Asian violence, Long COVID, migrant detention centers, blindness and digital accessibility, caregiving, neurodiversity, disability arts, and more"--