OurShelves: Beauty with Chloé Cooper Jones

<p>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 <em>Easy Beauty</em>, 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.</p><br><p><strong>Chloé’s recommendations:</strong></p><p><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p><p>On the nightstand – <em>The Coward</em> by Jarred McGinnis and <em>Staring</em> by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson</p><p>On your mind – <em>Drive to Survive</em>, the Formula One racing documentary. </p><p>On the shelf – Gretel Ehrlich's <em>The Solace of Open Spaces</em></p><p>On the pedestal – Harriet McBryde Johnson, a writer and disability activist.</p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>