OurShelves: Beauty with Chloé Cooper Jones
04/01/22 • 64 min
If you spend 288 pages deep in the life of a disabled person, can that experience shift your concept of disability? Join Chloé Cooper Jones, journalist, Pulitzer nominee and author of the new memoir Easy Beauty, as she talks with Lucy Scholes about how beauty can create a powerful mental shift. They discuss the social and political act of making the disabled body visible, the meaning of staring and ask Lewis Hamilton to teach Chloé Formula 1 Racing.
Chloé’s recommendations:
On the nightstand – The Coward by Jarred McGinnis and Staring by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
On your mind – Drive to Survive, the Formula One racing documentary.
On the shelf – Gretel Ehrlich's The Solace of Open Spaces
On the pedestal – Harriet McBryde Johnson, a writer and disability activist.
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If you spend 288 pages deep in the life of a disabled person, can that experience shift your concept of disability? Join Chloé Cooper Jones, journalist, Pulitzer nominee and author of the new memoir Easy Beauty, as she talks with Lucy Scholes about how beauty can create a powerful mental shift. They discuss the social and political act of making the disabled body visible, the meaning of staring and ask Lewis Hamilton to teach Chloé Formula 1 Racing.
Chloé’s recommendations:
On the nightstand – The Coward by Jarred McGinnis and Staring by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
On your mind – Drive to Survive, the Formula One racing documentary.
On the shelf – Gretel Ehrlich's The Solace of Open Spaces
On the pedestal – Harriet McBryde Johnson, a writer and disability activist.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Claire’s recommendations:
On the nightstand: Where The Wild Ladies Are, by Matsuda Aoko, translated by Polly Barton, published by Tilted Axis Press and The Korean Vegan
On my mind: Turn Away by Laura Moody (song)
On the shelf: Barbara Hepworth: Writings and Conversations
On the pedestal: Susanne Valadon
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Kate’s recommendations:
On the nightstand: What I Loved, Siri Hustvedt and The Bread the Devil Knead, Lisa Allen-Agostini
On your mind: WeCrashed, Apple TV series
On the shelf: Matrix, Lauren Groff
On the pedestal: Josie Naughton, Choose Love co-founder and CEO
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