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WE'VE GOT THIS
Stories by Disabled Parents
The first major anthology by parents with disabilities
UK publisher Scribe will work on an international edition, compiling a list of contributors from around the world. Translation editions could use Scribe's manuscript, and include contributions from their own territories.
How do two parents who are blind take their children to the park? How is a mother with dwarfism treated when she walks her child down the street? How do Deaf parents know when their baby cries in the night?
When writer and musician Eliza Hull was pregnant with her first child, like most parents-to-be she was a mix of excited and nervous. But as a person with a disability, there were added complexities. She wondered: Will the pregnancy be too hard? Will people judge me? Will I cope with the demands of parenting? More than 15 per cent of Australian households have a parent with a disability, yet their stories are rarely shared, their experiences almost never reflected in parenting literature.
In We've Got This, twenty-five parents who identify as Deaf, disabled or chronically ill discuss the highs and lows of their parenting journeys and reveal that the greatest obstacles lie in other people's attitudes. The result is a moving, revelatory and empowering anthology. As Rebekah Taussig writes, Parenthood can tangle with grief and loss. Disability can include joy and abundance. And goddammit disabled parents exist.'
Contributors include Jacinta Parsons, Kristy Forbes, Graeme Innes, Jessica Smith, Jax Jacki Brown, Nicole Lee, Elly May Barnes, Neangok Chair, Renay Barker-Mulholland, Micheline Lee and Shakira Hussein. We've Got This will appeal to readers of Growing Up Disabled in Australia and other titles in the Growing Up series.
Eliza Hull is a musical artist, writer, journalist and disability advocate and a contributor to Growing Up Disabled in Australia. Her podcast series on parenting with a disability, We've Got This, was one of Radio National's and ABC Life's most successful series of all time.
UK publisher Scribe will work on an international edition, compiling a list of contributors from around the world. Translation editions could use Scribe's manuscript, and include contributions from their own territories.
How do two parents who are blind take their children to the park? How is a mother with dwarfism treated when she walks her child down the street? How do Deaf parents know when their baby cries in the night?
When writer and musician Eliza Hull was pregnant with her first child, like most parents-to-be she was a mix of excited and nervous. But as a person with a disability, there were added complexities. She wondered: Will the pregnancy be too hard? Will people judge me? Will I cope with the demands of parenting? More than 15 per cent of Australian households have a parent with a disability, yet their stories are rarely shared, their experiences almost never reflected in parenting literature.
In We've Got This, twenty-five parents who identify as Deaf, disabled or chronically ill discuss the highs and lows of their parenting journeys and reveal that the greatest obstacles lie in other people's attitudes. The result is a moving, revelatory and empowering anthology. As Rebekah Taussig writes, Parenthood can tangle with grief and loss. Disability can include joy and abundance. And goddammit disabled parents exist.'
Contributors include Jacinta Parsons, Kristy Forbes, Graeme Innes, Jessica Smith, Jax Jacki Brown, Nicole Lee, Elly May Barnes, Neangok Chair, Renay Barker-Mulholland, Micheline Lee and Shakira Hussein. We've Got This will appeal to readers of Growing Up Disabled in Australia and other titles in the Growing Up series.
Eliza Hull is a musical artist, writer, journalist and disability advocate and a contributor to Growing Up Disabled in Australia. Her podcast series on parenting with a disability, We've Got This, was one of Radio National's and ABC Life's most successful series of all time.
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Published 2022-03-01 by Black Inc. |