This is a final reminder (I promise). People have still asked me to remind
them to go to Amazon and order Movie Stars and Sensuous Scars: Essays on the
Journey from Disability Shame to Disability Pride on Monday, July 26 at
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0595288936/qid=1090609861/sr=1-1/ref=sr
_1_1/002-5057434-9355236?v=glance&s=books. I want to thank everyone who
plans to buy the book, who has sent notices to their email lists, who has asked
libraries to purchase the book, who's using it in their classes or schools, or
in any other way supporting this endeavor. I am always most humbled and
appreciative of your support! Steve
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. One review highlight follows:
"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:
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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