Sitting Pretty

About this book

Amemoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account@sitting_pretty Rebekah Taussig, processing a lifetime of memories to paint abeautiful, nuanced portrait of a body that looks and moves differently thanmost.Growingup as a paralyzed girl during the 90s and early 2000s, Rebekah Taussig only sawdisability depicted as something monstrous (The Hunchback of Notre Dame), inspirational (Helen Keller), or angelic (Forrest Gump). None of this feltright; and as she got older, she longed for more stories that alloweddisability to be complex and ordinary, uncomfortable and fine, painful andfulfilling.Writingabout the rhythms and textures of what it means to live in a body that doesn'tfit, Rebekah reflects on everything from the complications of kindness andcharity, living both independently and dependently, experiencing intimacy, andhow the pervasiveness of ableism in our everyday media directly translates toeveryday life.Disabilityaffects all of us, directly or indirectly, at one point or another. Byexploring this truth in poignant and lyrical essays, Taussig illustrates theneed for more stories and more voices to understand the diversity of humanity.Sitting Pretty challenges us as a society to be patient and vigilant, practicaland imaginative, kind and relentless, as we set to work to write an entirelydifferent story.