Disability Justice Books - October 2025

Here at PCVU, we’re often thinking about disability rights and how we can better serve and represent the disabled members of our community. This month, we have a screening of the documentary “Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution” on October 18th, where we will watch and discuss how the campers at Camp Jened led a disability movement in the U.S. Can’t make it? Here are some great books to add to your must-read list!

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century

Edited by Alice Wong

This collection of 37 essays by disabled writers captures a wide variety of personal experiences, reflections, and commentary while pushing back on stereotypes, tropes of inspiration or pity, and showing the full complexity of living with disabilities. 

The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs
By Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

The Future Is Disabled offers a reframing; rather than seeing disability as tragedy or deficit, the book centers disabled experience as having vital knowledge, culture, creativity, and wisdom to share. 

All Our Families: Disability Lineage and the Future of Kinship

By Jennifer Natalya Fink

Fink argues that many families erase or “forget” disabled relatives from their narratives, which reinforces the ableist thought process that disabilities are tragic and unbecoming. Fink traces all of the aspects that lead to the many stigmas around disability and how - through kinship - we can change the narrative.