Responses to the initial notice of this book promotion/ADA celebration have
been great. Thank you. I've been asked to do two things since then. One is
to remind people to go to Amazon and order the book on Monday, July 26. The
second is to ask your libraries to do purchase the book as well. Two people
told me they've already done that. Without repeating everything from the first
message, highlights follow. Thanks again for your support! Steve
Under the rubric of shameless promotion, I'm asking for support for my book,
Movie Stars and Sensuous Scars: Essays on the Journey from Disability Shame
to Disability Pride, published late last summer. I have two requests to make
of all my friends and supporters:
First, if it feels appropriate use the book in your classes and
encourage others to do the same. At least one educator is using MOVIE STARS in all
classes he teaches.
Second, the book is available on Amazon. While it is available on
other websites, including www.disabilitiesbooks.com, when Amazon gets lots of
people ordering the book on the same day it has a chance to make it into Amazon's
Hot 100. These are the greatest selling books of a twenty-four hour period
and can call attention to disability to lots of people unfamiliar with our
movement.
I'd like to ask as many people as possible who are interested in the book,
for themselves or others, to order it on Monday, July 26, the fourteenth
anniversary of the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Let's promote
both at the same time, and maybe get the book into the Hot 100 where more people
will notice it.
You might be asking why someone outside of the disability rights world would
want the book. A few review follow:
"Chronicles author Steven Brown's journey from disability shame to disability
pride - and then some.
Includes a too-brief biography of his friends, Ed Roberts and Ed's mom, Zona
(what a woman!); the story of how Kalamazoo, Michigan got America's first curb
cuts in 1945; a tale of first CIL to wrest control from a bad board; the best
work we've seen on the reality of pain in his chapter "Hooked on Symptoms";
"The Truth about Telethons" and altogether more surprising and beautiful work
than we can describe here. Just get it."
--Mouth Magazine
http://www.webintegrity.net/cgi-bin/checkitout/checkitout.cgi?attitudeSTORE:CK
IE:HOMENEXT7:14:7++BI002c_82:ck:
"Nothing radicalizes like experience, and UH [University of Hawai`i]
historian Brown's journey into the disability-rights movement is captured in this fine
series of collected essays."
Honolulu Star-Bulletin, April 11, 2004
http://starbulletin.com/2004/04/11/features/story4.html
"a great book!...and i ain't just saying that because there a chapter about
me in it [that just added icing of honor!]. we all have scars...it's life. how
well we wear them makes us stars!"
--frank moore
I have been trying to locate reading material to recommend about disability
as a cultural concept. Your book hits the mark. I think the most difficult
thing to do when writing about such a complex and varied topic is to do it in a
concise and clear manner. To expose weaknesses as part of the process of
being successful.
I wanted to write... but I just couldn't figure out where to being, how to
travel and what the last chapter would say. I still don't know, but you did
it."
--Robert S. Ardinger, PhD
President of Ardinger Consultants & Associates - National Training and
Civil Rights Consulting Firm
Adjunct Political Science Professor
Former Program Compliance Director HUD/FHEO - Author of HUD's 504 Regulations
Steven E. Brown, Ph.D.
Center on Disability Studies
Review of Disability Studies
www.rds.hawaii.edu
Institute on Disability Culture
http://hometown.aol.com/sbrown8912/index.html
My book: Movie Stars and Sensuous Scars
information at: http://hometown.aol.com/sbrown8912/page7.html
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