Falling for myself : a memoir
- Title
- Falling for myself : a memoir / Dorothy Ellen Palmer.
- Published by
- Hamilton, ON, Canada : Wolsak and Wynn Publishers Ltd., [2019]
- Author
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Details
- Description
- xvii, 296 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "In this searing and seriously funny memoir Dorothy Ellen Palmer falls down, a lot, and spends a lifetime learning to appreciate it. Born with congenital anomalies in both feet, then called birth defects, she was adopted as a toddler by a wounded 1950s family who had no idea how to handle the tangled complexities of adoption and disability. From repeated childhood surgeries to an activist awakening at university to decades as a feminist teacher, mom, improv coach and unionist, she tried to hide being different. But now, in this book, she's standing proud with her walker and sharing her journey. With savvy comic timing that spares no one, not even herself, Palmer takes on Tiny Tim, shoe shopping, adult diapers, childhood sexual abuse, finding her birth parents, ableism and ageism. In Falling for Myself, she reckons with her past and with everyone's future, and allows herself to fall and get up and fall again, knees bloody, but determined to seek Disability Justice, to insist we all be seen, heard, included and valued for who we are."--
- Subject
- Adoptees
- Feminists
- Political activists
- Adoption
- People with disabilities > Civil rights
- Social justice
- Biographies
- Canada
- Adoption > Canada
- Palmer, Dorothy Ellen, 1955- > Health
- Health
- People with disabilities > Civil rights > Canada
- Social justice > Canada
- People with disabilities > Canada > Biography
- Genetic disorders > Patients
- Adoptees > Canada > Biography
- Feminists > Canada > Biography
- Political activists > Canada > Biography
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Call number
- JFE 20-4121
- Author
- Palmer, Dorothy Ellen, 1955- author.
- Title
- Falling for myself : a memoir / Dorothy Ellen Palmer.
- Publisher
- Hamilton, ON, Canada : Wolsak and Wynn Publishers Ltd., [2019]
- Type of content
- text
- Type of medium
- unmediated
- Type of carrier
- volume
- ISBN
- 1989496032
- 9781989496039 (softcover)
- Research call number
- JFE 20-4121