Book review: What Can A Body Do?

★★★★☆ A new confession: I struggle with a lot of accessibility writing. I am not necessarily saying this to blame people writing in this space, whose work I respect even if it’s not resonating with me. I think it’s more of a recognition of how difficult it is to talk about accessibility and disability. Advocacy is never easy. It’s hard not to be impatient with the pace of progress, hard to contain your incredulity that others don’t get that what is so obvious to you, hard not to constantly expect more from people, hard to imagine others – and the society as a whole – not caring. On top of that, accessibility is a more difficult subject than many I cover regularly on this blog. There are hard-to-explain technical issues wrapped in deep legal considerations, and some aspects of disability are taboo or taboo-adjacent. To me, all this often makes even best-intentioned accessibility writing less approachable. I am also, personally, to blame. I sometimes struggle with design writing, too.…