All the Weight of Our Dreams: On Living Racialized Autism

Lydia X.Z. Brown
4.55
127 ratings 27 reviews
Delve into poetry, essays, short fiction, photography, paintings, and drawings in the first-ever anthology entirely by autistic people of color, featuring 61 writers and artists from seven countries. The work here represents the lives, politics, and artistic expressions of Black, Brown, Latinx, Indigenous, Mixed-Race, and other racialized and people of color from many autistic communities, often speaking out sharply on issues of marginality, intersectionality, and liberation. All contributors featured: Amanda Filteau, Angel Alexzandrea McCorkle, Anmei He, Bijhan Valibeigi, Cindy Facteau (Fragmented Perfection), Christopher Tucker, Confessions of a Black Rhapsodic Aspie (COBRA), Daniel Au Valencia, D. Campbell Williams, Dee Phair (sometimesdee), Deion Hawkins, E. Ashkenazy, Ebru Çelik, Eliora Smith, Elly Wong, Emily Pate, Emma Rosenthal, Emmalia Harrington, Miss Fabien, Finn Gardiner, G.A., HarkenSlasher, Helene Fischer, Jane Strauss, Jen Meunier (Gzhibaeassigaekwe), Jennifer Msumba, Jessa Sturgeon, Joseph “Joey” Juarez, Kaijaii Gomez Wick, Kassiane A. Asasumasu, Keara Farnan, Kelly Bron Johnson (@KBronJohn, @OneQuarterMama), //kiran foster, Kristy Y., Legacy Onaiwu, leylah, Louise Thundercloud-Hills, Lucas Vizeu, Lydia X. Z. Brown, Maanu Alexander, M.D., Melis Leflef (Melissa Murphy), Mikael Lee, Morénike Giwa Onaiwu, Nathaniel Hagemaster (Agony Myers), N.I. Nicholson, Nicole S. Xurd (Shalese Nicole Heard), Ondrea Marisa Robinson, Pharaoh Inkabuss (Timotheus “T.J.” Gordon), Pretty Eyes Ellis, Rhonda G., Rikki Katherine Lee Moses, S. Henderson, Shane Bentley, Shondolyn Gibson, Stephan B., Taiyo Brown, Vivie Bella Papaleo, Yasmin Khoshnood, Ylanne So, Yvonne Christian (Uncommon Bostonian)
Genres: Autistic Spectrum DisorderNonfictionDisabilityPoetryRaceAnthologiesEssaysPsychologyDisability StudiesShort Stories
556 Pages

Community Reviews:

5 star
81 (64%)
4 star
37 (29%)
3 star
8 (6%)
2 star
0 (0%)
1 star
1 (1%)

Readers also enjoyed

Other books by Lydia X.Z. Brown

Lists with this book

ALS Saved My Life ... until it didn't
Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
Kindred
Books Written by Disabled Authors
401 books • 165 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird
Pride and Prejudice
A Story of Yesterday
Favorite Books
13987 books • 9865 voters
Vicious
Shameless
Defy
What We've Read So Far in 2017
7097 books • 838 voters
The Color Purple
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
#ReadPOC: List of Books by Authors of Color
1215 books • 240 voters