★ ESSENTIAL
Golem Girl: A Memoir
Riva Lehrer, 2020
CALL NO...: 02-BOO
TYPE......: Book
ACCESS....: SEE BELOW
The first winner of the Barbellion Prize, by a painter born with spina bifida who spent her childhood in medical institutions before finding the disability arts community. Part autobiography, part disability cultural history, part portfolio: the book includes her paintings, and its chapters alternate between her life and portraits of other disabled artists. Essential where disability memoir meets visual art.
Disabled VoiceDisability Arts
▶ HOW TO ACCESS
Available at many public libraries, on Bookshare (free for print-disabled individuals), and from One World (US) or Virago (UK). Audiobook available.