For Disability Pride Month, host Kendra Winchester is joined by Appodlachia co-host Callie Pruett Schwaber to discuss the importance of disabled people telling their own stories.

Things Mentioned

• Kendra’s interview with Alice Wong on Reading Women

Books Mentioned

• Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally by Emily Ladeau
• Blind Man’s Bluff: A Memoir by James Tate Hill
• What Doesn't Kill You: A Life with Chronic Illness - Lessons from a Body in Revolt by Tessa Miller
• Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors by Susan Sontag
• Some Days: A Tale of Love, Ice Cream, and My Mom's Chronic Illness by Julie A. Stamm
• El Deaf by Cece Bell
• Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century edited by Alice Wong

Guest Info
Callie Pruett Schwaber

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