New PDF release: My Body Politic: A Memoir

"I learn My physique Politic with admiration, occasionally for the discomfort that each one yet wept at the web page, back for sheer exuberant friendships, for self-discovery, political mind's eye, and pluck. . . . magnificent! In a gloomy time, a present of hope.

-Daniel Berrigan, S.J.

"The struggles, joys, and political awakening of a firecracker of a narrator. . . . Linton has succeeded in making a existence either wealthy and enviable. together with her crackle, irreverence, and intelligence, it really is transparent that the writer may by no means be keen to settle. . . . entirely enjoyable."

-Kirkus Reviews

"Linton is a passionate advisor to a global many outsiders, or even insiders, locate tough to navigate. . . . during this quantity, she recounts her own odyssey, from flower baby . . . to disability-rights/human rights activist."

-Publishers Weekly

"Witty, unique, and political with no being politically right, introducing us to a solid of humorous, courageous, notable characters (including the pro dancer with one leg) who've replaced the best way that 'walkies' comprehend incapacity. by the point Linton tells you in regards to the first time she used to be dancing in her wheelchair, you'll consider like dancing, too."

---Carol Tavris, writer of Anger: The Misunderstood Emotion

"This surprising ebook has ideal pitch. it's full of wit and keenness. Linton exhibits us how she discovered to 'absorb disability,' and to pilot a brand new and engaging physique. With verve and beauty, she discovers her body's pleasures, hungers, surprises, hurts, strengths, limits, and uses."

-Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, writer of Extraordinary our bodies: Figuring actual incapacity in American tradition and Literature

"An terribly readable account of lifestyles within the quickly lane... a super autobiography and a very good read."

-Sander L. Gilman, writer of Fat Boys: A slender Book

While hitchhiking from Boston to Washington, D.C., in 1971 to protest the struggle in Vietnam, Simi Linton used to be excited by a automobile coincidence that paralyzed her legs and took the lives of her younger husband and her ally. Her memoir starts off together with her fight to regain actual and emotional energy and to renew her existence on the planet. Then Linton takes us at the street she traveled (with stops in Berkeley, Paris, Havana) and again to her domestic in big apple, as she learns what it capability to be a disabled individual in America.

Linton ultimately accomplished a Ph.D., remarried, and commenced instructing at Hunter collage. alongside the best way she grew to become deeply devoted to the incapacity rights flow and to the folk she joined forces with. The tales in My physique Politic are populated with richly drawn graphics of Linton's disabled comrades, humans of conviction and lusty exuberance who dance, play-and organize--with ardour and commitment.

My physique Politic starts in the course of the turmoil over Vietnam and concludes with a meditation at the U.S. involvement within the present battle in Iraq and the war's wounded veterans. whereas a memoir of the author's sluggish political awakening, My physique Politic is full of experience, party, and rock and roll-Salvador Dali, James Brown, and Jimi Hendrix all make cameo appearances. Linton weaves a story that indicates incapacity to be a typical a part of the twists and turns of existence and, at the same time, a distinct vantage aspect at the world.