Growing in to Autism by Sandra Thom-Jones
$34.99 AUD
Category: Disability Studies
What's it like to realise you're autistic? And how do you start to ask the world around you to accept that? From the outside looking in, Sandra Thom-Jones was living a successful life- she had a great career, a beautiful home, a caring husband, two loving sons and supportive friends. But from the inside ...Show more
How to Be Autistic by Charlotte Amelia Poe
$22.99 AUD
Category: Disability Studies
How To Be Autistic charts Charlotte Amelia Poe's journey through schooldays and young adulthood, with chapters on food, fandom, depression, body piercing, comic conventions, and technology. Poe writes about her memoir: 'The best way to describe it is to imagine a road trip. If a neurotypical person want ...Show more
Imperfect by Lee Kofman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Disability Studies
By the time she was eleven and living in Russia, Lee Kofman had undergone several major operations on both a defective heart and injuries sustained in a bus accident. Her body harbours a constellation of disfiguring scars that have shaped her sense of self and her view of the world. But it wasn't until ...Show more
In the Province of the Gods by Kenny Fries
$49.95 AUD
Category: Disability Studies | Series: Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiographies
Kenny Fries embarks on a journey of profound self-discovery as a disabled foreigner in Japan, a society historically hostile to difference. As he visits gardens, experiences Noh and butoh, and meets artists and scholars, he also discovers disabled gods, one-eyed samurai, blind chanting priests, and A-bo ...Show more
Leg by Greg Marshall
$34.99 AUD
Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir
Greg Marshall's early years were pretty bizarre. Rewind the VHS tapes (this is the nineties) and you'll see a lopsided teenager limping across a high school stage, or in a wheelchair after leg surgeries, pondering why he's crushing on half of the Utah Jazz. Add to this home video footage a mom clacking ...Show more
Love & Autism by Kay Kerr
$36.99 AUD
Category: Disability Studies
'Love has always intrigued me, in part because I have carried for a long time a feeling that I am doing love wrong.' Michael made a name for himself on the hit show Love on the Spectrum. After his televised first dating experiences, will he complete his quest to find his queen? Chloë was always good at ...Show more
Love, Partnership or Singleton on the Autism Spectrum by Luke Beardon, Dean Worton
$36.99 AUD
Category: Disability Studies
Providing an immensely personal perspective on relationships on the autism spectrum, 26 contributors share what they have learned so far. With a diverse range of viewpoints, this is an intimate report on how people have made relationships work, how they have failed and how they have chosen to be on thei ...Show more
Neurodiverse Relationships: Autistic and Neurotypical Partners Share their Experiences by Joanna Pike; Tony Attwood (Foreword by, As told to); Joanna Stevenson (Editor)
$33.99 AUD
Category: Disability Studies
Comprised of the accounts of twelve heterosexual couples in which the man is on the Autism Spectrum, this book invites both partners to discuss their own perspectives of different key issues, including anxiety, empathy, employment and socialising. Autism expert Tony Atwood contributes a commentary and a ...Show more
Neuroqueer Heresies - Notes on the Neurodiversity Paradigm, Autistic Empowerment, and Postnormal Possibilities by Nick Walker
$35.99 AUD
Category: Disability Studies
The work of queer autistic scholar Nick Walker has played a key role in the evolving discourse on human neurodiversity. Neuroqueer Heresies collects a decade's worth of Dr. Walker's most influential writings, along with new commentary by the author and new material on her radical conceptualization of N ...Show more
Our Autistic Lives - Personal Accounts from Autistic Adults Aged 20-70+ by Alex Ratcliffe (Editor)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Disability Studies
This collection of narratives from autistic adults is structured around their decades of experience of life, covering 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60 and 70s+. These are varied and diverse, spanning different continents, genders, sexualities and ethnicities, yet the author highlights the common themes that unite ...Show more
Qda - A Queer Disability Anthology by Raymond Luczak (Editor)
$38.00 AUD
Category: Disability Studies
Queerly Autistic: The Ultimate Guide for LGBTQIA+ Teens on the Spectrum by Erin Ekins
$34.99 AUD
Category: Disability Studies
In this empowering and honest guide for LGBTQIA+ autistic teens, Erin Ekins gives you all the tools you need to figure out and explore your gender identity and sexuality. From coming out to friends and family, staying safe in relationships and practicing safe sex, through to self-care and coping with bu ...Show more