Description:
What if disability isn't a deficit to be prayed away? What if disability is divine?
In My Disability Is Divine, award-winning author and disabled scholar Amy Kenny offers a dynamic theological meditation on the beauty and brilliance of disabled lives. Drawing from Scripture, history, and disability culture, she explores
ways that disability reveals divine creativity and presence; how Scripture celebrates disabled bodyminds; and why access, interdependence, and joy are central to the community of creation.Packed with forgotten histories, witty clapbacks, and shrewd observations, this book is a call to radically reexamine our assumptions about disability--and ourselves.
Both fierce and funny, My Disability Is Divine is a necessary guide for anyone ready to unlearn ableism, celebrate the sacredness of the disability community, and catch a clearer glimpse of how we can create communities of co-flourishing.
Brief description: Amy Kenny is a disabled scholar-practitioner and the founding director of the Disability Cultural Center at Georgetown University in Washington DC. She is the award-winning author of My Body Is Not a Prayer Request, and her work on disability has appeared in Teen Vogue, Sojourners, HuffPost, The Mighty, and Shondaland. Kenny has served on the mayor's Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Task Force in California and with the Freedom Road Institute for Leadership and Justice. She also cofounded Jubilee Homes, a housing initiative for people experiencing homelessness.