Her books was crucial for me when I had to retire from paid work. I learned that the relentless attention paid me by non-disabled people was systemic not personal. Given how many people in my family have died in the past decade, I should reread A Troubled Guest: Life and Death Stories
I gave away my copy and now it seems to be out of print. Happily a scanned print/text-to-speech version of A Troubled Guest is available for hourly checkout from the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/troubledguestlif00mair
I did find a one-hour (uncaptioned) documentary streaming free on YouTube. Titled "Waist-high in the world," it includes biographical details and photos as well as her reading several essays: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XggyWE7sVlI
She was brilliant!
Her books was crucial for me when I had to retire from paid work. I learned that the relentless attention paid me by non-disabled people was systemic not personal. Given how many people in my family have died in the past decade, I should reread A Troubled Guest: Life and Death Stories
I gave away my copy and now it seems to be out of print. Happily a scanned print/text-to-speech version of A Troubled Guest is available for hourly checkout from the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/troubledguestlif00mair
Carnal Acts is also there: https://archive.org/details/carnalactsessays00mair
I did find a one-hour (uncaptioned) documentary streaming free on YouTube. Titled "Waist-high in the world," it includes biographical details and photos as well as her reading several essays: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XggyWE7sVlI
An interview between the doc maker, poet Janice L Dewey, and Mairs in the Review of Disability Studies https://www.rdsjournal.org/index.php/journal/article/view/15/