I'll let myself in breaking down doors, claiming space and finding your wheels Hannah Diviney
- Bib ID:
- 10003989
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Diviney, Hannah, author
- Online Access:
- National edeposit: Onsite at National Library of Australia
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- Access Conditions:
- National edeposit: Available onsite at the National Library of Australia, State Library of New South Wales
- Description:
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- Crows Nest, NSW Allen & Unwin 2023
- 2023
- ©2023
- 1 online resource.
- File Characteristics:
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- text file
- EPUB
- 1.0MB
- ISBN:
- 9781761187414
- Technical Details:
- Mode of access : Available online.
- Summary:
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A defiant coming of age story about a young woman coming to terms with all that she is, the good, the bad and the ugly. When it occurred to me that the only real books I'd ever read with disabled characters in them were specialty books, displayed and designed exclusively for therapy settings, some of the hollowness I'd learnt to live with started making sense. Hannah Diviney has always known that her experience of the world was fundamentally different from those around her. While her friends went to soccer and dance and Little Athletics, Hannah was going to physio and doctors' appointments. While her friends got jobs, fell in love and went clubbing, Hannah surrounded herself with the fantastical worlds she found in books. But books where people like her were nowhere to be found. Refusing to accept the narratives, or lack thereof, that she'd been given, Hannah was determined to forge her own path in a world that wasn't designed for her, and to be the representation she'd always wanted to see. Both deeply personal and yet utterly relatable, I'll Let Myself In is a young woman's battle-cry over the voices who try to tell her who she can and can't be, and a reminder not to wait to be invited to the table but to break the door down and demand to be hear.--Publisher's website.
Hannah Diviney has always known that her experience of the world was fundamentally different from those around her. While her friends went to soccer and dance and little athletics, Hannah was going to physio and doctors' appointments. While her friends got jobs, fell in love and went clubbing, Hannah surrounded herself with the fantastical worlds she found in books. But books where people like her were nowhere to be found. Refusing to accept the narratives, or lack thereof, that she'd been given, Hannah was determined to forge her own path in a world that wasn't designed for her, and to be the representation she'd always wanted to see. Both deeply personal and yet utterly relatable, I'll Let Myself In is a young woman's battle-cry over the voices who try to tell her who she can and can't be, and a reminder not to wait to be invited to the table but to break the door down and demand to be heard.
Hannah Diviney has always known that her experience of the world was fundamentally different from those around her. While her friends went to soccer and dance and 'little athletics', Hannah was going to physio and doctors' appointments. While her friends got jobs, fell in love and went clubbing, Hannah surrounded herself with the fantastical worlds she found in books. But books where people like her were nowhere to be found. Refusing to accept the narratives, or lack thereof, that she'd been given, Hannah was determined to forge her own path in a world that wasn't designed for her, and to be the representation she'd always wanted to see. Hannah's story is filled with wit, passion and vulnerability as she transforms from outsider to creating her own media company, calling out Beyonce, Lizzo and Eminem for their ableist slurs and beginning an acting career. Both deeply personal and yet utterly relatable, I'll Let Myself In is a young woman's battle-cry over the voices who try to tell her who she can and can't be, and a reminder not to wait to be invited to the table but to break the door down and demand to be heard.
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- Subject:
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- Diviney, Hannah -- Mental health
- Diviney, Hannah
- Actors -- Australia -- Biography
- Authors, Australian -- Biography
- Autobiographies
- Cerebral palsied -- Australia -- Biography
- Human rights workers -- Australia -- Biography
- Journalists -- Australia -- Biography
- People with cerebral palsy -- Australia -- Biography
- People with disabilities -- Australia -- Biography
- People with disabilities -- New South Wales -- Biography
- Perseverance (Ethics)
- Self-actualization (Psychology) in women
- Women authors -- Biography
- Women authors, Australian -- Biography
- Women human rights workers -- Australia -- Biography
- Women with disabilities -- Biography
- Young women with disabilities -- Australia -- Biography
- Young women with disabilities -- New South Wales -- Biography
- Actors
- Cerebral palsied
- Journalists
- Mental health
- People with disabilities
- Women with disabilities
- Australia
- Biography & Memoir (Australia)
- Coping with illness/disability (Australia)
- Physically disabled - issues & welfare (Australia)
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- Also Titled:
- I will let myself in
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