Movie Stars and Sensuous Scars

“MOVIE STARS AND SENSUOUS SCARS is a powerful book…. The writing is clear and flows well. The ideas are beautifully radical. He gives true insight into disability and people with disabilities. His is a voice demanding to be heard.”

—the late David Pfeiffer, renowned disability scholar and advocate

"Steve Brown takes us on a profound journey…. His advocacy doesn't preach but teaches. With words describing his life and the lives of those close to him, he opens a wide door through which any who can read or care to grow can pass."

—Mark Medoff, Author of the play CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD

”Chronicles author Steven Brown’s journey from disability shame to disability pride — and then some.

Includes a too-brief biography of his friends, Ed Roberts and Ed’s mom, Zona (what a woman!); the story of how Kalamazoo, Michigan got America’s first curb cuts in 1945; a tale of first CIL to wrest control from a bad board; the best work we’ve seen on the reality of pain in his chapter “Hooked on Symptoms”; “The Truth about Telethons” and altogether more surprising and beautiful work than we can describe here. Just get it.”

--Mouth Magazine

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“Nothing radicalizes like experience, and UH [University of Hawai`i] historian Brown's journey into the disability-rights movement is captured in this fine series of collected essays.”

Honolulu Star-Bulletin, April 11, 2004

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“MOVIE STARS AND SENSUOUS SCARS, with its attention-getting title, is a loosely collected anthology of Brown's articles and research on disability culture. Sharing his own cultural journey, he begins with his childhood. We read about his adolescence in diary form. He tells of his continuing experience living with Gaucher's disease. He looks at the difference between cure and healing.

Shared personal stories are an initial way to form culture: "Let's take our fables, our stories and make them into the kinds of myths that future generations will convey with pride when they discuss their ancestors -- early heroes of the disability rights movement," he writes in "The Scientist and the Frog." "We have a responsibility to show what we have accomplished -- and to share what remains to be done." In "American Apartheid," Brown links the cultural struggles of people with disabilities and African Americans. Other articles speak also of struggle: a walkout to protest internal disputes about independent living; telethon tyranny; the mutual struggle for rights within other minority groups.”

--Julie Shaw Cole, Posted Jan. 19, 2004

http://www.ragged-edge-mag.com/reviews/sensuousscarsreview.html

“a great book!...and i ain't just saying that because there a chapter about me in it [that just added icing of honor!]. we all have scars...it's life. how well we wear them makes us stars!”

--frank moore

“It’s like you’re getting two books in one: personally moving stories about himself and others in the disability rights movement, combined with analysis from his analytical/historical point of view as a professor.”

Ed Heaton

DISABLED DEALER

Mid-Atlantic Region (March 2004—Op-Ed Column)

“I was on my way to Tulsa...Your book arrived about 2 days before my trip. I ordered it to give me some additional ideas about pressing the media to use more persons with disabilities. Particularly , when roles call for a character who has a disability. What a surprise.

I have been trying to locate reading material to recommend about disability as a cultural concept. I was always left with the impression that the authors were writing to meet the expectations of the reader, rather than telling the "story".

Your book hits the mark. I think the most difficult thing to do when writing about such a complex and varied topic is to do it in a concise and clear manner. To expose weaknesses as part of the process of being successful.

I wanted to write... but I just couldn't figure out where to being, how to travel and what the last chapter would say. I still don't know, but you did it.”

--Robert S. Ardinger, PhD

President of Ardinger Consultants & Associates - National Training and Civil Rights Consulting Firm

Adjunct Political Science Professor

Former Program Compliance Director HUD/FHEO - Author of HUD's 504 Regulations

“History buffs or disabled people interested in learning more about their community history will be interested in this book. Students of disability studies will also benefit from the mixed stories of individual and political, autobiographical and biographical, local and national narratives…it adds significantly to what we know about Ed and Zona Roberts and their role in disability history. It shares personal and intimate tales of dealing with disability and the organizations that serve people with disabilities.”

Tanis Doe, Review of Disability Studies, www.rds.hawaii.edu

"Disability culture is at the heart and soul of the disability movement, and in Steve Brown's writings we see that culture shining in all its glory."

—Mary Johnson, Editor, Ragged Edge

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