{"id":413782,"date":"2019-02-24T22:01:28","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T06:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/?p=413782"},"modified":"2026-02-12T17:20:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T01:20:41","slug":"collecting-a-home-for-disability-justice-in-the-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/2019\/02\/24\/collecting-a-home-for-disability-justice-in-the-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Collecting [a] home for Disability Justice in the Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Collecting [a] home for Disability Justice in the Library<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Written by Dana Bishop-Root and Dustin Gibson in collaboration with Bekezela Mguni. Audio version by Imani Barbarin. <\/strong><\/h5>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-413782-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/disability_visibility\/content.blubrry.com\/disability_visibility\/Collecting_a_home_for_Disability_J.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/disability_visibility\/content.blubrry.com\/disability_visibility\/Collecting_a_home_for_Disability_J.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/disability_visibility\/content.blubrry.com\/disability_visibility\/Collecting_a_home_for_Disability_J.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><strong>Content Warnings: physical and sexual violence of settler colonialism<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Beginning in 2013, the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carnegie_Free_Library_of_Braddock\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Braddock Carnegie Library<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (BCLA) began to build a structure that allows multiple library publics to recommend material for acquisition for the lending collection. Contributors are given full autonomy to compile a list of material that not only reflects their experiences, but a collection that could be in conversation with the neighborhood in which the library is located. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Braddock is a neighborhood along the Monongahela River situated just outside of Pittsburgh, PA. It\u2019s conditions are similar to many predominantly Black, industrial, low-income neighborhoods that are positioned for \u2018revitalization\u2019 and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2017\/12\/the-criminalization-of-gentrifying-neighborhoods\/548837\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">economic development<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latoyarubyfrazier.com\/work\/notion-of-family\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Braddock<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and the surrounding area is a place where disablement occurs and existing disabilities are exacerbated by the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/255746381\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">toxicity<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.topic.com\/braddock-pa\/braddock-pa-poison\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">land<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/news\/environment\/2019\/02\/05\/US-Steel-sulfur-dioxide-high-level-recorded-Clairton-Coke-Works-Mon-Valley-Pittsburgh\/stories\/201902050123?fbclid=IwAR2tjnHhIvliRfK0TQTzHmmflZvpkOsJO0fXyk4j-RqbwOkHQxveaJPmF_E\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">air<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, physical structures and legislative action. The impact has been compounded by the violence created and perpetuated by white supremacy; including police violence\/murder, unaccountable <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dustinpgibson.com\/offerings\/woodlandhillshighstpp\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">educational systems<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and a host of conditions that are a byproduct of a complete disregard for human and non-human life. Ableism and racism are at the core of these conditions. Their co-dependent relationship is one that\u2019s digested through the water and breathed in through the air. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Workers at BCLA asked me (<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/dustinpgibson.com\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dustin Gibson<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) as someone who interacts with the library and works with\/in the disability community, to recommend a collection of lending material. A collection that speaks to the truth that is held in the bodyminds of the community and provides language to articulate and understand the complexities of how disability interacts with\/in systems. The objective of the collection is not to validate or define experience, but to provide tools to promote the critical engagement of the public through a lens of Disability Justice. The recommended material has now been acquired by BCLA and is available for check-out. The list is offered here, prefaced with [con]text, in deep gratitude for the community of Braddock and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">every<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> person that has contributed words, edits, reviews, labor, material, time, and thought\u2026 those who are named as contributors and the unnamed. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Disability Justice is a praxis that has been <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/sinsinvalid.org\/blog\/disability-justice-a-working-draft-by-patty-berne\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">developed and led by<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Disabled <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tereneh152XX\/status\/1081196773442551810\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">people of the global majority<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, who are also queer and gender non-conforming. Its <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/sinsinvalid.org\/blog\/10-principles-of-disability-justice\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">core principles<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are rooted in the recognition of disability as a natural component of identity, rather than an impairment. With the assertion that <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/mississippi.universitypressscholarship.com\/view\/10.14325\/mississippi\/9781604738223.001.0001\/upso-9781604738223-chapter-17\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cnobody\u2019s free, until everybody\u2019s free\u201d<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, its framework aligns with the organizing methods of Black women like Fannie Lou Hamer, who for generations, have worked to center the people on the margins of the margins.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For many, the practice of Disability Justice is an attempt to find home. An <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/2019\/02\/01\/access-is-love\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">access-centered<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> place that welcomes us to exist as we are, or create a home as Tupac described as, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SC29iHNips0\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201ca spot where we can kick it\u2026 a spot where we belong.\u201d<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The quest to do so is a continual building phase that provides foundation to the world that we have yet to imagine. Home is an inherent right that has purposefully been stripped away from Disabled and other marginalized communities for generations. Historically, home has been determined by people who create and uplift systems that <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedallas6.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">torture<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/autistichoya.net\/judge-rotenberg-center\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">abuse<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canonsociaalwerk.eu\/1966_Kerstmis\/Xmas-Purgatory.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">disappear<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and relegate <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/no-way-to-call-home-incarcerated-deaf-people-are-locked-in-a-prison-inside-a-prison\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Disabled people to confinement<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. To honor those who have never had or found home, we must explicitly state that the ability to explore the content of books or acquire them is not a privilege afforded to all. For those that have been or are currently imprisoned, enslaved, institutionalized, or by other means had their freedom taken away, access to books have intentionally been <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.citylab.com\/equity\/2018\/02\/the-fbis-war-on-black-owned-bookstores\/553700\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">denied<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. We must also be clear that the ability to read and write should not be a determinant of value and alternative ways to access books or learning methods should be prioritized. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most services promoted as residential living for Disabled people, such as \u201cgroup homes\u201d and \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=m0Oclpk1Us0\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">nursing facilities<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d, provide an illusion of home with similar restrictions and uncare as traditional institutions have. Unlike prisons that disappear <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/2018\/12\/30\/ep-41-deaf-in-prison\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">mostly Disabled people<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, they\u2019re often not geographically dislocated from communities and still disappear people from the exact areas in which they\u2019re housed. Not only have Disabled people been hidden away, but their stories, histories, and contributions have as well. The majority of public institutions, including libraries, have relegated the experiences of Disabled people to an exercise in medical literacy, the object of study, or a \u2018how to accommodate\u2019 people with \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.autistichoya.com\/p\/ableist-words-and-terms-to-avoid.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">special needs<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d. Much of the material that\u2019s either written by or contains the lived experience of people who identify <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/autistichoya\/status\/1094631551726440448\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">socially\/politically as Disabled<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is not present in most libraries; or is scattered throughout various topics and has no home. For example, only 15 out of the 31 pieces in the recommended collection existed within the 46 libraries in the county system, and only 2 of the books previously existed at the Braddock Carnegie Library. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This text and building of a collection, is as much about books as it is about an offering of making explicit and honoring the relationships that create possibility to learn ourselves; to locate home. It is a gathering together of multiple ways of knowing, experiences, ideas and histories that includes the \u201cI\u201d while suggesting a \u201cWe\u201d. We identify the singular identity, the singular public, the standard, the categories created for others to locate us, as entrapments, and silencing of the multiplicity that is necessary for access.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This collection is by no means extensive. It\u2019s a snapshot from the purview of a Black Disabled man (Dustin) in a moment that\u2019s defined by experience and place, with the acknowledgement that the past, present and future are not separate. Existing not as one, but in collectivity, the books begin to expand the realm of possibility. By removing them from isolation or binary trappings, they form an ideology that defends <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/leavingevidence.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/12\/access-intimacy-interdependence-and-disability-justice\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">interdependence<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and creates multiple entrances to engage. The books themselves are an example of how generations of knowledge, struggle, experiences, violence, labor, erasure, joy, and so on, can formulate message(s). \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These books were chosen to form this collection, in part, to expose the dimensions of ableism that uphold and strengthen every system of oppression. Each selection, in conversation with one another, is intended to unsew the anti-black seams of ableism, and unravel the white-centric understanding of disability and how it lives in the bodymind. Together, in thought and physical space, the books can unveil the fluidity of disability by disavowing the notion that experience is stagnant, linear and able to be contained. Individually each book has its own context and meaning; together as a collection, they challenge categorization and form complex identities from the order\/disorder in which the books are placed next to and against each other. For instance, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dukeupress.edu\/the-right-to-maim\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by Jasbir K. Puar (2017) together, in conversation with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Forgotten-Crimes-Holocaust-People-Disabilities\/dp\/1566635659\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Forgotten Crimes: The Holocaust and People with Disabilities<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by Susanne E. Evans (2004) tells a complex story of state violence that positions disability at the center of the Holocaust and the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IZS2lVDqBTE\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">occupation of Palestine<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2026 forming a narrative that is often erased in public discourse. It also highlights the racist\/ableist policies of Switzerland and the United States that have perpetuated violence against Disabled people or led (and continue to lead) to disablement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Disability exists across all communities, but is more prominent and pronounced throughout those that are marginalized. The shape of disability is crafted by all facets of our lives, including our environment and position within social systems; a truth that is magnified in the writings of oppressed people when viewed through a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/263120897_Disability_critical_race_studies_DisCrit_Theorizing_at_the_intersections_of_race_and_disability\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">critical disability lens<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. More often than not, books explicitly concerning disability and upheld by academia, are written from a privileged medical perspective that almost never implicates itself as a primary function of ableism. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is our intention to complicate our understanding of ableism by directly engaging with an institution that names itself as \u2018public\u2019 while maintaining an ableist system. One that perpetuates the violence that the content of its collections hold the power to dismantle. A public library. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The need to name something as public, or \u2018for the public\u2019 acknowledges and reinforces that there is a private (singular ownership). In a hyper capitalist, white-centered and ableist culture, institutions and <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/theweeklychallenger.com\/how-americas-first-black-middle-class-village-was-destroyed-to-make-way-for-central-park\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">lands who name <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">themselves <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/theweeklychallenger.com\/how-americas-first-black-middle-class-village-was-destroyed-to-make-way-for-central-park\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">public<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, exist with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/unsettlingamerica.wordpress.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">colonial histories<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that have been built on land that was neither public nor private. Privatization and theft are the foundation of many of the places that are considered public (<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.decolonizethisplace.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">libraries<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/theweeklychallenger.com\/how-americas-first-black-middle-class-village-was-destroyed-to-make-way-for-central-park\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">parks<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/jun\/03\/the-man-who-was-caged-in-a-zoo\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">people<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, government buildings, etc). This translates into the architecture of the physical space, the organizational practices and the everyday experiences of those who do, do not, or are not able to utilize the space and\/or services. Public spaces and public resources cannot be separated from, or idealized outside of, the intentional construction of systemic oppressions. Therefore, the relationships of power that are present, define who the public is and the access needs for those publics. The attempt to make public, is a system of reduction that limits access to people that are marginalized by the exact system that is creating the \u2018public\u2019 resource or place. This limitation effects all of us in the expansive possibilities and actualization of both who publics can be and what publics can do. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are many publics in every public. If the assumption is that the public in a library are the resources and services it offers \u2018that are for the general welfare\u2019 or \u2018accessible or shared by all members of a community\u2019 it then becomes a structure of erasure. In the rare instance that accessibility (per ADA) is fully implemented, it typically fails to move beyond access to engagement. Engagement is experienced from who is employed, to how programs are designed, to the resources are that are offered (and how they are offered). \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Creating the means for multiple publics to select a collection of material that largely does not already exist in the library system is part of a larger practice at BCLA of actively engaging with making the collection more public. BCLA does this by welcoming individuals who interact with the library to examine what exists and what\u2019s missing in the lending material and form a collection that is reflective and responsive to who they are. The library allocates resources to acquiring the recommended collection. The material that\u2019s added, that didn\u2019t previously exist, complements and uplifts material that has existed in the collection; that otherwise has been seen through a singular lens based on its historical categorization. Building a system where the collection is built by many and not by a few, is a practice of multiplicity and is infinitely expansive to how we can find ourselves and each other within the library. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The collection is listed at the conclusion of this text along with how each book\/movie is currently catalogued at the BCLA. Most public libraries in the United States utilize the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_Dewey_Decimal_classes\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dewey Decimal Classification System<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in an attempt to create a shared organizational structure in order for the \u2018public\u2019 to locate the content that they\u2019re looking for. The attempt to create a \u2018user friendly\u2019 system for both the workers and the public of the library is interrupted by categories that\u2018ve been defined and reinforced for the last 143 years by <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediaed.org\/transcripts\/Bell-Hooks-Transcript.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">white supremacist ableist capitalist patriarchy<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which perpetually colonizes (through categorization and English language) content, ideas, histories and the work of both the authors and their publics whose intention is decolonization and liberation. The process of those in power that determine how and what is public is similar to the process that determines what is deemed accessible and to who.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Content Warning: The following paragraph contains a detailed description of physical and sexual violences of settler colonialism. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The categorization of the books in this collection are examples of how multidimensional stories become flattened by placement. For example, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Truevine-Brothers-Kidnapping-Mothers-Quest\/dp\/0316337544\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Truevine<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2016) is a book written by Beth Macy about the kidnapping of two Black albino brothers, George and Willie Muse. Macy details how they were stolen from their family home in Roanoke, VA and forced to entertain white circus-goers without pay. They were sometimes presented as \u201cDarwin\u2019s missing link between humans and apes\u201d, which is in the lineage of a long history of scientific ableism-racism. Its Dewey Decimal System categorization<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is<\/span> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Public Performances,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> but in the collection, it has the possibility of being positioned next to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Kaisers-Holocaust-Germanys-Forgotten-Genocide\/dp\/057123142X\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Kaiser&#8217;s Holocaus<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">t: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Germany&#8217;s Forgotten Genocide and the Colonial Roots of Nazism<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by Casper W. Erichsen and David Olusoga (2010). A story of how German colonizers imprisoned the indigenous Herero and Nama people off the coast of Namibia in what would become known as the world\u2019s first death camp in the late 19th century. After two years, only one-third of the camp remained. Some women were forced to boil the severed heads of their loved ones and scrape their scalps with glass. Their skulls, along with others who had been decapitated by physicians, were sent to Germany to prove the similarities between Black people and apes, which helped lay the foundation for the formation of the Nazis. The deep connections that exist between these stories (and others) are rarely made. In many cases, the authors privileges affords them the ability to research and write stories of historically marginalized people without an understanding of the the interconnectedness of systems, namely <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mariontjohnson\/status\/1084121942779744256\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ableism and racism<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The systems that then frame or categorize books, indicating what they\u2019re about, strengthen the narrative of the isolated <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gayatri_Chakravorty_Spivak\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">other.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our decision to not permanently separate out and codify this specific collection of books\/films honors their multiform relationships, while acknowledging the ways they are currently stratified by the existing system of categorization within the library. The collecting of the individual books\/film from their mostly disparate locations within the library can be experienced as a gathering of the complexities of our selves. As an example, otherwise categorized into separate sections of a library, a subjective choice to place <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Cancer-Journals-Special-Audre-Lorde\/dp\/1879960737\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Cancer Journals<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by Audre Lorde (1980) next to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Black-Disabled-Art-History-101\/dp\/1942001576\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Black Disabled Art History 101<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by Leroy Moore Jr. (2017) compels a relationship between the two, creating an opportunity for an expanded understanding of their interdependence, their differences and where each of us can enter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The struggle for liberation must concern itself with the impact that ableism has on disabled people AND non-disabled people. Expanding our collective understanding of its purpose, function, and affect, allows us to examine the limitations of the physical and imaginative approaches to engagement. For instance, the common use of accessibility is derived from a legal framework that grants rights to a protected class. That class, being a somewhat monolithic group of disabled people that have been otherized by the mere proposition that their needs are separate and distinct from the needs of non-disabled people. As <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/usicd.wordpress.com\/2013\/06\/18\/reimagining-our-future\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ki\u2019tay D. Davidson<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> wrote, \u201cThe difference between the needs that many disabled people have &amp; the needs of people who are not labeled as disabled is that non-disabled people have had their dependencies normalized.\u201d The pervasiveness of ableism shapes systems that fail to accommodate the multitude of learning methods and styles that benefit disabled and non-disabled people alike. Access is not stationary. It requires space to shift over time and place, and at times, it will be in contradiction with itself or the needs of another person. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Disability Justice has no category. In fact, it is anti-category. Its methods are neither determined by a dominant system nor do they adhere to the myth of universal design. The absence of absolute is space to embrace what\u2019s happening in the present and respond to the needs of the moment. A collection that challenges categorization resists the stratification of self that ableist culture systematizes. A collection is as much complete as it is incomplete; there is room for both additions and subtraction in the moment and over time. It then becomes, however temporary, a possibility of our full, morphing and locatable selves.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_413801\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-413801\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"413801\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/2019\/02\/24\/collecting-a-home-for-disability-justice-in-the-library\/img-3518-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG-3518-1.jpg?fit=3024%2C3024&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"3024,3024\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG-3518 (1)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;A stack of 17 library books lying horizontally. Text on the spines of the books from top to bottom: The Girl with All the Gifts, Disability and Difference in Global Contexts, Truevine, Normalization, The Ugly Laws, Kindred, Black Disabled Art History 101, Killing the Black Body, Forgotten Crimes, The Diary of Frida Kahlo, All the Weight of Our Dreams, Medical Apartheid, Unspeakable: The Story of Junnius Wilson, Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity, Blood in the Water, Sick from Freedom, Thinking Class&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG-3518-1.jpg?fit=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-413801\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG-3518-1.jpg?resize=400%2C400&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A stack of 17 library books lying horizontally. Text on the spines of the books from top to bottom: The Girl with All the Gifts, Disability and Difference in Global Contexts, Truevine, Normalization, The Ugly Laws, Kindred, Black Disabled Art History 101, Killing the Black Body, Forgotten Crimes, The Diary of Frida Kahlo, All the Weight of Our Dreams, Medical Apartheid, Unspeakable: The Story of Junnius Wilson, Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity, Blood in the Water, Sick from Freedom, Thinking Class\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG-3518-1.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG-3518-1.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG-3518-1.jpg?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG-3518-1.jpg?resize=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG-3518-1.jpg?resize=250%2C250&amp;ssl=1 250w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG-3518-1.jpg?resize=1800%2C1800&amp;ssl=1 1800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG-3518-1.jpg?resize=50%2C50&amp;ssl=1 50w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG-3518-1.jpg?w=2720&amp;ssl=1 2720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-413801\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A stack of 17 library books lying horizontally on a table. Text on the spines of the books from top to bottom: The Girl with All the Gifts, Disability and Difference in Global Contexts, Truevine, Normalization, The Ugly Laws, Kindred, Black Disabled Art History 101, Killing the Black Body, Forgotten Crimes, The Diary of Frida Kahlo, All the Weight of Our Dreams, Medical Apartheid, Unspeakable: The Story of Junius Wilson, Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity, Blood in the Water, Sick from Freedom, Thinking Class<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3><b>About<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><b>Dana Bishop-Root<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> works at the Braddock Carnegie Library. Her collaborative practices grow alongside local systems of communication, exchange, resource distribution, and how we use language together. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Dustin Gibson<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a community builder that develops he[art]work to undo ableism and racism. He is the co-founder of Disability Advocates for Rights and Transition, where he works to build futures free from institutions. Twitter: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/notthreefifths\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">@notthreefifths<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> | Website: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dustinpgibson.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">dustinpgibson.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Bekezela Mguni <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is an artist, poet, doula, activist and librarian. She is enough. She is a BOOM Concepts studio member, Education Program Director at Dreams of Hope and the founder of the Black Unicorn Library and Archive Project. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Imani Barbarin<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a writer, blogger and social media advocate at the intersections of race, gender and disability. She is behind such viral tags as #ThingsDisabledPeopleKnow and #DisTheOscars. You can find her work at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/crutchesandspice.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CrutchesAndSpice.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><b>The following books\/films were recommended by Dustin Gibson and then acquired by the Braddock Carnegie Library.<\/b><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/librarycatalog.einetwork.net\/Record\/.b26978921\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present,<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Harriet A. Washington, 2007<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">174.28 WAS (<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Philosophy &amp; Psychology; <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ethics; Occupational Ethics) <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/librarycatalog.einetwork.net\/Record\/.b31623293\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction,<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jim Downs, 2012<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">613.08 DOW (Personal Health &amp; Safety)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/librarycatalog.einetwork.net\/Record\/.b3834533x\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Disability and Difference in Global Contexts: Enabling a Transformative Body Politic,<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nirmala Erevelles, 2011<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">305.9 ERE (<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Social Sciences; Sociology &amp; Anthropology<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">; Groups of People) <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/librarycatalog.einetwork.net\/Record\/.b37499427\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All the Weight of Our Dreams: On Living Racialized Autism,<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lydia X. Z. Brown, E. Ashkenazy &amp; Mor\u00e9nike Giwa Onaiwu, 2018 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">616.85 BRO (Technology; Medicine &amp; Health; Diseases) <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/librarycatalog.einetwork.net\/Record\/.b38345377\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Cancer Journals,<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Audre Lorde, 1980<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">808.88 LOR (Literature, Rhetoric &amp; Criticism, Collections of Literature) <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/librarycatalog.einetwork.net\/Record\/.b38345316\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Black Disabled Art History 101,<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Leroy Moore Jr, 2017<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ART 709.2 (Arts &amp; Recreation; Arts; History, Geographic Treatment, Biography) <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/librarycatalog.einetwork.net\/Record\/.b38345304\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unspeakable: The Story of Junius Wilson,<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Susan Burch, 2015<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">362.4 BUR (Social Sciences; Social Problems &amp; Social Services; Services to Groups)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/librarycatalog.einetwork.net\/Record\/.b38106644\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice,<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, 2018<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">362.4 PIE (Social Sciences; Social Problems &amp; Social Services; Services to Groups)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/librarycatalog.einetwork.net\/Search\/Results?lookfor=The+Principle+of+Normalization+in+Human+Services&amp;type=Keyword&amp;retainFilters=true&amp;limit=20&amp;sort=relevance\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Principle of Normalization in Human Services,<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wolf Wolfensberger, 1972<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">362.3 WOL \u00a0(Social Sciences; Social Problems &amp; Social Services; Services to Groups)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/librarycatalog.einetwork.net\/Search\/Results?lookfor=Killing+the+Black+Body%3A+Race%2C+Reproduction%2C+and+the+Meaning+of+Liberty&amp;type=Keyword&amp;retainFilters=true&amp;limit=20&amp;sort=relevance&amp;filter%5B%5D=%7Ebuilding%3A%22Braddock+Carnegie+Library%22\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty,<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dorothy Roberts, 1997<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">363.96 ROB (Social Sciences; Social Problems &amp; Social Services; Other Social Problems &amp; Services)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/librarycatalog.einetwork.net\/Record\/.b38345213\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability,<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jasbir K. Puar, 2017<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">305.9 PUA (Social Sciences; Sociology &amp; Anthropology; Groups of People) \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/librarycatalog.einetwork.net\/Record\/.b25097891\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Forgotten Crimes: The Holocaust and People with Disabilities,<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Susanne E. Evans, 2004<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">940.53 (History &amp; Geography; History of Europe)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/librarycatalog.einetwork.net\/Record\/.b38345341\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother&#8217;s Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South,<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Beth Macy, 2016<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">791.35 MAC (Arts &amp; Recreation; Sports, Games &amp; Entertainment; Public Performances)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2010\/dec\/04\/kaisers-holocaust-olugosa-erichsen-review\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Kaiser&#8217;s Holocaust: Germany&#8217;s Forgotten Genocide and the Colonial Roots of Nazism,<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Casper W. Erichsen, David Olusoga, 2010<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">304.66 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Social Sciences; Sociology &amp; Anthropology<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">; Groups of People) <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/librarycatalog.einetwork.net\/Record\/.b37631068\">Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity,<\/a> <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Riley Snorton, 2017<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">306.76 SNO (Social Sciences; Culture and Institutions) <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/librarycatalog.einetwork.net\/Record\/.b18070279\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait,<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Frida Kahlo, Carlos Fuentes, 2005<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ART KAH (Art) <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/librarycatalog.einetwork.net\/Record\/.b29786952\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public,<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Susan M. Schweik, 2010<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">346.73 SC (Social Sciences; Law; Private Law)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/librarycatalog.einetwork.net\/Record\/.b25437768\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kindred,<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Octavia E. Butler, 1979 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">FBUT (Fiction) <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/librarycatalog.einetwork.net\/Record\/.b37331498\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Girl With All the Gifts,<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Colm McCarthy, 2006<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">DVD GIRL (Film) <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/librarycatalog.einetwork.net\/Record\/.b38114422\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Heavy: An American Memoir,<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kiese Laymon, 2018<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">92 LAY (Biography) <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/librarycatalog.einetwork.net\/Record\/.b36370794\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy,<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Heather Ann Thompson, 2016 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">365.97 THO (Social Sciences; Social Problems &amp; Social Services; Penal and Related Institutions)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rtc.umn.edu\/valuinglives\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Valuing Lives: Wolf Wolfensberger and the Principle of Normalization,<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jerry Smith, 2017 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NF DVD VAL (Non Fiction Film) <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/N._K._Jemisin#Broken_Earth_series\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Broken Earth Series<\/span><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/librarycatalog.einetwork.net\/Record\/.b35743682\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Fifth Season<\/span><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/librarycatalog.einetwork.net\/Record\/.b36287738\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Obelisk Gate<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/librarycatalog.einetwork.net\/Record\/.b37497960\">The Stone Sky,<\/a> <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">K. Jemisin, 2015-2017\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">FJEM (Fiction) <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/librarycatalog.einetwork.net\/Record\/.b38345249\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thinking Class: Sketches from a Cultural Worker,<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Joe Kadi, 1996 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">306.76 KAD (Social Sciences; Culture &amp; Institutions) <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/video\/witf-i-go-home\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I Go Home,<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Keira McGuire, 2016 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NF DVD IGO<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rootedinrights.org\/video\/bottom-dollars\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bottom Dollars,<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jordan Melograna, 2016<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NF DVD BOTT<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/films\/lives-worth-living\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lives Worth Living,<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eric Neudel, 2011<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NF DVD LIV<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/librarycatalog.einetwork.net\/Record\/.b38280528\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Missing Daddy,<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mariame Kaba, 2018<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">JFKAB (Juvenile Fiction) <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/librarycatalog.einetwork.net\/Record\/.b36115836\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women,<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Victoria Law, 2009<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">364.374 LAW <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Social Sciences; Social problems &amp; Social Services; Criminology)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/librarycatalog.einetwork.net\/Record\/.b13997464\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No Pity: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement,<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Joseph P. Shapiro, 1994<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">323.3 SHA <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Social Sciences; Political Science, Civil &amp; Political Rights)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/librarycatalog.einetwork.net\/Record\/.b28689586\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jailhouse Lawyers: Prisoners Defending Prisoners v. the USA,<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mumia Abu-Jamal, 2009 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">345 ABU (Social Sciences; Law; Criminal Law) <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christopher_Bell_(scholar)\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Blackness and Disability: Critical Examinations and Cultural Interventions,<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Christopher M. Bell, 2012<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">305.9 BELL <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Social Sciences; Groups of People) <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/librarycatalog.einetwork.net\/Record\/.b24077598\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Are Prisons Obsolete?<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Angela Davis, 2003<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">365.973 D (Social Sciences; Social Problems &amp; Social Services; Penal and Related Institutions)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><b>Acknowledgments<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Deep appreciation and thanks to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.autistichoya.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lydia X. Z. Brown<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/samischalk.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr. Sami Schalk<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.talilalewis.com\/about.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Talila A. Lewis<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, &amp; <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolynlazard.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Carolyn Lazard<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for recommending books for the collection. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thank you to Ruthie Stringer at the Braddock Carnegie Library for developing an expansive framework and language for public collection building within the library.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Support Disability Media and Culture<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/donate\/\"><b>DONATE<\/b><\/a><b> to the Disability Visibility Project\u00ae<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Collecting [a] home for Disability Justice in the Library &nbsp; Written by Dana Bishop-Root and Dustin Gibson in collaboration with Bekezela Mguni. 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