Disability Awareness Month!

“People with disabilities succeed when communities choose to be inclusive” — Haben Girma

Disability Awareness Month is an opportunity to recognize, celebrate, and better understand the experiences of people with disabilities. In Muslim communities, conversations about disability can help create greater awareness, inclusion, and compassion. Books can play an important role in these conversations by sharing different experiences and reminding us that everyone deserves to feel represented and valued. Take this opportunity to explore these stories through selections from the GoodShelf catalog:

Temple Folk: is a debut short story collection by Aaliyah Bilal that features the story Candy for Hanif, which centers on a mother’s routine trip to the store for her disabled son.

How to Be a Muslim: An American Story: by Haroon Moghul, bipolar disorder serves as a central, complicating force in the author’s journey to forge a stable identity as a Pakistani-American Muslim

The Hollow Half: A Memoir of Bodies and Borders: by Sarah Aziza is a powerful, genre-bending debut memoir that connects her 2019 near-death hospitalization for an eating disorder to her family's history of displacement as Gazan refugees.

If you have a recommendation that isn’t in our catalog, don’t hesitate to go to https://www.goodshelf.org/recommend and make a submission!