[Home-on-the-Range] Big Read Book Discussion Event -Disability Civil Rights, Sitting Pretty by Rebekah Taussig - Saturday 4/12/25 6:00pm Wichita Bard ID DB101063

[Mika Pyyhkala]

As discussed at this weeks South Central chapter meeting in Wichita, I wanted to highlight the disability rights author event taking place this Saturday April 12th, see details below.

As part of the Big Read initiative, I had an opportunity to participate earlier this week on a Kansas Leadership Panel discussing the state of accessibility and inclusion, and the book served as the backdrop for the evenings conversation featuring advocates, city representatives, journalists, and others involved or interested in accessibility and inclusion.

The excerpt from the book was very timely and interesting in terms of where we are as a society in our approach towards disability, and highlighted how much work remains to be done.

I would recommend that anyone attend the free event to learn more and get a preview of the book and meet the author. The event is in person only and is not being streamed online. You do not need to register or RSVP to attend.

Big Read Book Discussion Event - Sitting Pretty by Rebekah Taussig
Saturday 4/12/25 6:00pm - 7:30 pm
Wichita Public Library
711 W 2nd Street
Wichita, KS 67203
316-261-8500
Facebook Event Page:
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Sitting Pretty
The View from My Ordinary, Resilient, Disabled Body
By
Rebekah Taussig
Narrated by
Rebekah Taussig
NLS Bard ID Number: DB101063
Audible Audio Book Link:
https://www.audible.com/pd/Sitting-Pretty-Audiobook/0063014491?source_code=ASSGB149080119000H&share_location=pdp

About this listen
A memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Rebekah Taussig, processing a lifetime of memories to paint a beautiful, nuanced portrait of a body that looks and moves differently than most.Growing 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.Writing 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.Disability 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.


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Mika Pyyhkala
Dir. of Digital Accessibility - BVI Workforce Innovation Center
Envision, Inc.
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