Finding #DisabilityReadathon Books to Read from DSQ Reviews

[jesse_the_k]

Hats off to Erin Hawley geekygimp and Anna Goldberg nymeria941 for rustling up the Disability Readathon, running for all of April 2021.

I don’t Twitter, but I can bring my listserv wrangling skills to bear.

Disability Studies Quarterly, a free open-access peer-review journal, always publishes a few reviews in each issue, AND they’ve done two all-review issues:

Thirty-eight reviews in the Winter 2020 issue
https://dsq-sds.org/issue/view/234

Eighty-one reviews in the current, Winter 2021 issue
https://dsq-sds.org/issue/view/256

While most of these books are published by academic presses, the reviewers always take into account whether the works are accessible to those of us outside the academy.

Comments

[peachpai]

Oh heck yeah! Gonna mine those book review sections to add to my list. :)

[jesse_the_k]

I appreciate that they look back to 2016, picking up some gems I'd otherwise totally miss.

[sovay]

While most of these books are published by academic presses, the reviewers always take into account whether the works are accessible to those of us outside the academy.

That's really good, says the person still bitter about losing academic library access fifteen years ago.

Disability Studies Learned Something From their predecessors

[jesse_the_k]

...in Africana and Women's Studies. They're still closer to the sharp end of activists. That's why they always provide free reg or free membership in SDS.

(Library access is the best drug.)

Given the density of *.edus in your neighborhood, I would hope that one of them would wake up and taste the easy income from selling a "library access + one credit course" to folks like you and me.

Re: Disability Studies Learned Something From their predecessors

[sovay]

Given the density of *.edus in your neighborhood, I would hope that one of them would wake up and taste the easy income from selling a "library access + one credit course" to folks like you and me.

You would think! The money would print itself.