{"product_id":"sitting-pretty","title":"Sitting Pretty: The View From My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body","description":"\u003cp\u003eA memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/sitting_pretty\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e@sitting_pretty\u003c\/a\u003e Rebekah Taussig, processing a lifetime of memories to paint a beautiful, nuanced portrait of a body that looks and moves differently than most.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eDisability 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[[[More Info]]]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGrowing 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWriting 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[[[About the Author]]]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/www.arts.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/large\/public\/images\/rebekah-taussig-big-read-portrait.jpg?itok=wSHA1omz\" alt=\"Notable Quotable: Rebekah Taussig | National Endowment for the Arts\" style=\"margin: 16px 16px 1px 1px; float: left;\" width=\"267\" height=\"361\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRebekah 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe earned her PhD from the University of Kansas and runs the Instagram platform \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/sitting_pretty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003e@sitting_pretty\u003c\/a\u003e. 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, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/rebekahtaussig.substack.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eThis Too\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ctable width=\"100%\" style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePaperback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePages\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e256\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eYear Published\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e2021\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Harper Collins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53008089383199,"sku":"9780062936806","price":21.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1064\/2364\/files\/sitting-pretty-rebekah-taussig-book.jpg?v=1794517858","url":"https:\/\/venusenvy.ca\/products\/sitting-pretty","provider":"Venus Envy","version":"1.0","type":"link"}