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Otherness, Disability, and Beauty: A Conversation with Pulitzer finalist Chloé Cooper Jones

New Books in Disability Studies

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You Know, I'm a Linguist and I've Been Blind for a While Now and I Can't Imagine Them Ever Saying That's Not Your Job or Not Your Child's Job

"Nobody can fully understand us, and yet we are always engaged in this friction causing experience of trying desperately to connect," says author. "Culture plays a role in the way that we define what others are how they're defined it's different from one society to another", he adds. The book is about revealing to others how they are wrong about their aesthetic and moral assumptions but also just practical assumptions about what other people need.

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