{"product_id":"how-to-be-disabled-in-a-pandemic-paperback","title":"How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMara Mills\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eHarris Kornstein\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eFaye Ginsburg\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA chronicle of ableism and disability activism in New York City during the COVID-19 pandemic\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow to Be Disabled in a Pandemic\u003c\/i\u003e documents the pivotal experiences of disabled people living in an early epicenter of COVID-19: New York City. Among those hardest hit by the pandemic, disability communities across the five boroughs have been disproportionately impacted by city and national policies, work and housing conditions, stigma, racism, and violence--as much as by the virus itself. Disabled and chronically-ill activists have protested plans for medical rationing and refuted the eugenic logic of mainstream politicians and journalists who \"reassure\" audiences that only older people and those with disabilities continue to die from COVID-19. At the same time, as exemplified by the viral hashtag #DisabledPeopleToldYou, disability expertise has become widely recognized in practices such as accessible remote work and education, quarantine, and distributed networks of support and mutual aid. This edited volume charts the legacies of this \"mass disabling event\" for uncertain viral futures, exploring the dialectic between disproportionate risk and the creativity of a disability justice response. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow to Be Disabled in a Pandemic\u003c\/i\u003e includes contributions by wide-ranging disability scholars, writers, and activists whose research and lived experiences chronicle the pandemic's impacts in prisons, migrant detention centers, Chinatown senior centers, hospitals in Queens and the Bronx, subways, schools, housing shelters, social media, and other locations of public and private life. By focusing on New York City over the course of three years, the book reveals key themes of the pandemic, including hierarchies of disability \"vulnerability,\" the deployment of disability as a tool of population management, and innovative crip pandemic cultural production. \u003ci\u003eHow to Be Disabled in a Pandemic\u003c\/i\u003e honors those lost, as well as those who survived, by calling for just policies and caring infrastructures, not only in times of crisis but for the long haul.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJudith Heumann (Afterword by) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Judith Heumann (1947-2023) was an internationally recognized disability rights activist, widely regarded as one of the leaders of the Disability Rights Movement. Judy worked in the Clinton and Obama Administrations, as an advisor at the World Bank, and as a Senior Fellow at the Ford Foundation. Her story is featured in the Oscar-nominated documentary\u003ci\u003e Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e (2020) and her book, \u003ci\u003eBeing Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist \u003c\/i\u003e(2020).\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eShe continued to be active until her death at age 75 on March 5, 2023. See https: \/\/judithheumann.com\/ \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMara Mills (Editor) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eMara Mills\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. Mills is cofounder of the NYU Center for Disability Studies and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eCrip Authorship: Disability as Method.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eHarris Kornstein (Editor) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eHarris Kornstein\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor of Public and Applied Humanities at the University of Arizona. They have published research and essays in \u003ci\u003eSurveillance \u0026amp; Society, Curriculum Inquiry, Wired\u003c\/i\u003e, and others. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFaye Ginsburg (Editor) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eFaye Ginsburg \u003c\/b\u003eis Kriser Professor of Anthropology at New York University. Ginsberg is cofounder of the NYU Center for Disability Studies and author of \u003ci\u003eContested Lives: The Abortion Debate in an American Community\u003c\/i\u003e and coauthor of \u003ci\u003eDisability Worlds.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRayna Rapp (Editor) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eRayna Rapp\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor Emerita in the Department of Anthropology at New York University, and the author of \u003ci\u003eTesting Women, Testing the Fetus: The Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America \u003c\/i\u003eand coauthor of \u003ci\u003eDisability Worlds.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eEd Yong (Foreword by) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eEd Yong\u003c\/b\u003e is a science writer. For his coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic, he won the Pulitzer Prize in explanatory journalism, among other honors. He is the author of two \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestsellers: \u003ci\u003eI Contain Multitudes\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAn Immense World, \u003c\/i\u003e which won the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 392\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 9 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 25, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47461592989874,"sku":"9781479830855","price":51.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/acf1c748d769172d0073403d16dbde9b.webp?v=1778952525","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/how-to-be-disabled-in-a-pandemic-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}