Finding #DisabilityReadathon Books to Read from DSQ Reviews
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jesse_the_kHats 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.
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Date: 02/04/2021 03:26 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 02/04/2021 09:53 pm (UTC)I appreciate that they look back to 2016, picking up some gems I'd otherwise totally miss.
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Date: 03/04/2021 10:49 pm (UTC)That's really good, says the person still bitter about losing academic library access fifteen years ago.
Disability Studies Learned Something From their predecessors
Date: 03/04/2021 11:31 pm (UTC)...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
Date: 04/04/2021 12:27 am (UTC)You would think! The money would print itself.