Shops:

Margot and Cobalina on Etsy - mito friend’s paper art shop, great for custom orders

Fresh Crayons on Etsy - because who doesn’t need a rainbow mitochondrial plushie?

PunKing Designs on Etsy - great science pun stickers

Awareness Gear Co on Etsy - creator of my favorite mitochondrial sweatshirt

TedTalk:

Stella Young’s I’m Not Your Inspiration - EVERYONE should watch this.

People to Follow:

Dena DNA - genetic counseling influencer

Laura High - comedian who is a powerful advocate for the donor conceived community

Authors:

Alice Wong - one of the key Disablity writers of our time

Emily Nagoski - someone who helped shaped the way I think about everything in life

Dorothy Roberts - medical ethics writer

Books about Disability:

*including only those I have read

Children’s E-Book:

• Helix's Marvelous Muffins by Katelyn Kelchner, Abby Hare-Harris, Devin Shuman

Easy first-reads:

• Demystifying Disability: What to know, What to Say, and How to be an Ally by Emily Ladau

• Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century by Alice Wong

• Against TechnoAbleism by Ashley Shew

• Sincerely, Your Autistic Child by Sharon deVanport, Morenike Giwa Onaiwu, and Emily Paige Ballou

Books that make you think:

• Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire by Alice Wong

• Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarashinha

• The Future is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs by Leah Lakshi Piepzna-Samarashinha

• Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto by Tricia Hersey

• Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in a Black Women’s Speculative Fiction by Sami Schalk

• Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education by Jay Timothy Dolmage

• Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition by Liat Ben-moshe

Memoirs:

• Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist by Judith Heumann

• Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law by Haben Girma

• Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life by Alice Wong

• Sipping Dom Perignon Through a Straw: Reimagining Success as a Disabled Achiever by Eddit Ndopu

Medical:

• The Boys in the Bunhouse: Servitude and Salvation in the Heartland by Dan Barry

• Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women’s Pain by Abby Normal

• The Puzzle Solver: A scientist’s Desperate Quest to Cure the Illness that Stole His Son by Tracie White

• Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World by Elinor Cleghorn

GC and Disability related reading (may contain outdated terms and references):

• Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others by Laura Van Dernoot Lipsky, Connie Burk

• Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrier Buck by Adam Cohen

• Telling Genes: The Story of Genetic Counseling in America by Alexandra Minna Stern

• Eugenics and the Ethics of Selective Reproduction by Stephen Wilkinson and Eve Garrard