Our stories matter. It's a mantra Rebekah Taussig not only believes but repeats in her book “Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary...
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Rebekah Taussig only saw disability depicted as something monstrous (The Hunchback of Notre Dame), inspirational (Helen Keller), or angelic (Forrest Gump).
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Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body” by Rebekah Taussig is the Go Big Read book for the 2024-2025 academic...
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Rebekah Taussig wasn't alone, but she sure felt like it. Paralyzed since the age of 3, Taussig couldn't help noticing that depictions of...
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Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body by Rebekah Taussig has been selected as the 2024-2025 Go Big Read book.
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2024 – 2025 Go Big Read Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body By Rebekah Taussig Summary: Growing up as a...
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Next month, in July, we celebrate Disability Pride Month — on July 26, 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law,...
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We'll hear from Eliza Hull, a contemporary musician, disability advocate, and writer based in regional Victoria, Australia, and the editor of a new anthology.
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FAYETTEVILLE -- Though author, speaker, and educator Rebekah Taussig's disability experience is her life using a wheelchair, she's realized...
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Born in Manhattan, Kansas, in the mid-1980s, Rebekah Taussig was 14 months old when she was diagnosed with a malignant cancer that attacked her spine.
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