December Media Map: Year of the Tiger by Alice Wong

Enrich your reading of our December book of the month, Year of the Tiger by Alice Wong, by exploring related music, books, TV, film, podcasts & social media accounts, with additional resources & articles to check out!

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Music

• Hardcover Hotties Collaborative Spotify Playlist

• Alice Wong's Official Tiger Power Playlist

• 4 Wheel City (rap group)

• Website

• 4 Wheel City Presents "The Movement" (SUBTITLES)

• SAVED BY GOD - 4 Wheel City

• Lachi (singer/songwriter)

• Website

• Live Performance of Dis Education at Disability:IN

• Gaelynn Lea (classical violinist)

• Website

• Gaelynn Lea: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

• Wheelchair Sports Camp (electronic rap rock)

• Website

• "HARD OUT HERE FOR A GIMP" - Wheelchair Sports Camp [official video]

• Nomy Lamm

• Nomy Lamm - A New Road Home

Books

• Disability Visibility: First Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century by Alice Wong, etc. (a collection of essays)

• Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

• Crip Times: Disability, Globalization, and Resistance by Robert McRuer

• Skin, Tooth, and Bone: The Basis of Movement is Our People: A Disability Primer by Sins Invalid

• Access to Book Digital & Paper Copies

• The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love With Me by Keah Brown

• Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body by Rebekah Taussig

• Seven Days in June by Tia Williams

• A Room Called Earth by Madeleine Ryan

• Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

• Being Heumann: A Unreprentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist by Judith Heumann

• Black Disability Politics by Sami Schalk

• What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo

• The Architecture of Disability by David Gissen

• Queer Silence: On Disability and Rhetorical Absence by J. Logan Smilges

• Ammonite by Nicola Griffith

TV & Film

• Full Film Directory from ReelAbilities Film Festival

• Crip Camp (2020)

• Flowers for Algernon (2000)

• The Shape of Water (2017)

• A Quiet Place (2018)

• Sound of Metal (2019)

• Black Mirror: San Junipero (2016)

• Concrete Cowboy (2020)

• Muriel’s Wedding (1994)

• Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)

• Sex Education (2019)

Podcasts

• Disability Visibility, Alice Wong: Disability Activist, Media Maker, Consultant

• Sexuality and Disability: Forging Identity in a World that Leaves You Out | Gaelynn Lea | TEDxYale

• Beyond Disability Rights; Disability Justice: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

• Our fight for disability rights and why we're not done yet | Judith Heumann | TEDxMidAtlantic

Accounts to Follow

• @diversability

• @the_chronic_notebook

• @barryleeart

• @chiara.acu

• @blackdisabilitycollective

• @crutches_and_spice on TikTok and Instagram

• @disabilityrightsohio

• @aaron____philip

• @leahlakshmiwrites

• @embracedbody1

• @chidpocc

• @disabledhikers

• @disabledoracles

• @rampd_up

• @undoing_ableism

• @brownroundboi

• @blackdisabledlivesmatters

• @centeringdisability

• @nigh.functioning.autism

• @youlookokaytome

• @wheelchairsportscamp

Resources

• Disability Rights Ohio

• Special Books by Special Kids

• Neurodivergent News

• For people wanting to join disabled music communities: Rampd

• 10 Principles of Disability Justice

• Shortened Version

• Sins Invalid: An Unashamed Claim to Beauty in the Face of Invisibility [Find multilingual content here!]

• Donate to Sins Invalid

• Support Sins Invalid in Exchange for a Sick Shirt

Articles to Check Out

• Dear Parents: Your Child with Autism is Perfect by Madeleine Ryan

• Constant Craving: Life with a Feeding Tube Doesn’t Mean I Go Without Nourishment by Alice Wong

• The Black Panthers and Disability History - Independence Now

• Blind Musician Lachi Opens Up On Coming Out of the Disability Closet - Forbes

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Finally, feel free to allow the love and respect that Sandy Ho, an Asian-American disabled community-organizer, activist, policy researcher, and long-time friend of Alice Wong, guide you through your reading journey with discussion questions, suggested activities, and plenty of inside jokes which can be found here!