askanazi

＂People would love me / If I were a pretty poet,＂ writes Shalida A. Askanazi in her memoir of suffering, healing, and dreaming big when the world sets the odds against you.That Girl’s in a Wheelchairis the candid story of a Black disabled woman loving upon her childhood and teenaged selves, blessing those selves for their survival of poverty and abuse, mental and physical illnesses, ridicule and racism ... and embracing joy, love, and big dreams.