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description: Bubbles of Ableism puts an authentic voice to the reality women with disabilities experience in their day-to-day pursuit of intimacy, partnership, and motherhood. Palacios’ captivating words bring to life the lived experience of heartbreak, jubilation, failure, and resilience that women with disabilities yearn for society to truly understand. This must-read book is not only for the poetry enthusiast, but a revolutionary, eye-opening text for politicians, educators, advocates, parents, and individuals with disabilities. Each poem leaves you enraptured, and yearning to understand why myths and stigma continue to fuel discriminatory laws and practices against people with disabilities. Readers are inspired to transform society’s engrained, oppressive responses of women with disabilities from asexual, incompetent, weak objects to beautiful, strong, competent lovers, partners, and mothers!  —Dr. Alette Coble-Temple John F. Kennedy University Professor of Psychology Ms. Wheelchair America 2016 
title: Bubbles of Ableism: A Disabled Woman's Journey of Love & Motherhood