A memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Rebekah Taussig, processing a lifetime of memories to paint a beautiful, nuanced portrait of a body that looks and moves differently than most.

Disability affects all of us, directly or indirectly, at one point or another. By exploring this truth in poignant and lyrical essays, Taussig illustrates the need for more stories and more voices to understand the diversity of humanity. Sitting Pretty challenges us as a society to be patient and vigilant, practical and imaginative, kind and relentless, as we set to work to write an entirely different story.

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Growing up as a paralyzed girl during the 90s and early 2000s, Rebekah Taussig only saw disability depicted as something monstrous (The Hunchback of Notre Dame), inspirational (Helen Keller), or angelic (Forrest Gump). None of this felt right; and as she got older, she longed for more stories that allowed disability to be complex and ordinary, uncomfortable and fine, painful and fulfilling.

Writing about the rhythms and textures of what it means to live in a body that doesn’t fit, Rebekah reflects on everything from the complications of kindness and charity, living both independently and dependently, experiencing intimacy, and how the pervasiveness of ableism in our everyday media directly translates to everyday life.

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Notable Quotable: Rebekah Taussig | National Endowment for the Arts

Rebekah Taussig is a Kansas City writer who lives in a house full of half-finished art projects, loud music, and a fussy family of tenderhearted snugglers.

She writes to understand, to reclaim, and to participate in changing the cultural narratives we have around disability,motherhood, and what it means to live in a human body. She believes storytelling can change the world. Literally.

She earned her PhD from the University of Kansas and runs the Instagram platform @sitting_pretty. After almost a decade of teaching in the traditional classroom, she has pivoted to full time writing and speaking. You can find her writing regularly in TIME Magazine and on her Substack, This Too.

Format	Paperback
Pages	256
Year Published	2021

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