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SUMMARY:BIG IDEA Book Club
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DESCRIPTION:A discussion group dedicated to diverse voices\, perspectives\
 , and authors. We'll aim to construct a meaningful conversation about anti
 -racism and embrace the diversity of our community..\nhttps://toledo.libne
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>Meetings take place via Zoom. Registered p
 articipants will be emailed meeting information prior to the event startin
 g.</p>\n<p><strong>Sitting Pretty:&nbsp\;The View from My Ordinary Resilie
 nt Disabled Body by&nbsp\;Rebekah Taussig</strong></p>\n<p><a href="https:
 //toledo.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S218C2267866">Click here to request o
 r download</a></p>\n<p>A memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and cre
 ator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Rebekah Taussig\, processing
  a lifetime of memories to paint a beautiful\, nuanced portrait of a body 
 that looks and moves differently than most.</p>\n<p>Growing up as a paraly
 zed girl during the 90s and early 2000s\, Rebekah Taussig only saw disabil
 ity depicted as something monstrous (The Hunchback of Notre Dame)\, inspir
 ational (Helen Keller)\, or angelic (Forrest Gump). None of this felt righ
 t\; and as she got older\, she longed for more stories that allowed disabi
 lity to be complex and ordinary\, uncomfortable and fine\, painful and ful
 filling.</p>\n<p>Writing about the rhythms and textures of what it means t
 o live in a body that doesn't fit\, Rebekah reflects on everything from th
 e complications of kindness and charity\, living both independently and de
 pendently\, experiencing intimacy\, and how the pervasiveness of ableism i
 n our everyday media directly translates to everyday life.</p>\n<p>Disabil
 ity affects all of us\, directly or indirectly\, at one point or another. 
 By exploring this truth in poignant and lyrical essays\, Taussig illustrat
 es the need for more stories and more voices to understand the diversity o
 f humanity. Sitting Pretty challenges us as a society to be patient and vi
 gilant\, practical and imaginative\, kind and relentless\, as we set to wo
 rk to write an entirely different story.</p>\nhttps://toledo.libnet.info/e
 vent/10528040
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