"My Body is a Meadow: Finding Freedom in the Outdoors" by Bethany Handley

This book isn't out yet, but will be later this week! I received a digital ARC for it (thanks!). This is a memoir-style essay collection about the intersection between disability and nature. It's a personal look into being Disabled and finding ways to have access to your surroundings despite the plethora of unnecessary barriers set up by an ableist society. It's about the artificial divide between wild and urban, human versus nature, healthy or sick, abled versus disabled. Instead of reflecting on ourselves as a possible symbiotic whole, marginalized communities like the Disabled are mistreated and neglected just like our planet is. I liked reading about that comparison, and I liked the idea that our bodies are adaptable just like nature is resilient. I most appreciated the ideas about interdependence. There's such shame in society about being disabled and having to rely on others. But who or what is truly totally independent? Why do we need to be, when everything in life is…