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03156aam a2200313 i 4500 001 CDF0CF36F63611EE80258AC022ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240409010228 008 230604s2024 gau 000 0aeng 010 $a 2023024906 020 $a 0820365904 020 $a 9780820365909 035 $a (OCoLC)1388209174 040 $a LBSOR $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d YDX $d OCLCO $d JIU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 100 1 $a Lambert, Sandra Gail. 245 10 $a My withered legs and other essays / $c Sandra Gail Lambert. 264 1 $a Athens : $b The University of Georgia Press, $c [2024] 300 $a 141 pages ; $c 22 cm. 490 1 $a Crux, the Georgia series in literary nonfiction 520 $a "My Withered Legs and Other Essays is a collection of personal essays by Sandra Gail Lambert which reflect upon her experience becoming a writer alongside discussions of disability, queerness, and aging. A seventy-year history of disability is threaded throughout these essays and intertwined with writing that celebrates lesbian love, explores the slapstick moments of life, and shares the obstacles and triumphs of becoming a writer later in life. The essays chronicle times of interruption and then adaptation as the disability skill of always just figuring it out becomes tested with age and with illness. Throughout the book, Lambert engages with topics of ageism and ableism through storytelling rich with wit and contemplation. From childhood Lambert believed she was "ice flow material" and now, in a pandemic, she ticks off the additional comorbidities-age, fatness, cancer, a heart attack-that groups her with the expendable. In the essay "Gimp Humor," she is threatened with a ticket for not coming to a full stop while strolling along in her wheelchair. Underpinning the humor is an analysis of whiteness and the wariness that can be lodged, or not, in a body. Other essays reimagine the meaning of Old Lady Dabbler, include kayaking among a hundred alligators, and tell the romantic, laden with power dynamics, tale of two lesbians in their sixties who fall in love. Another essay explores the family story, truth embellished with fiction, of Lambert's mother finding an unexploded bomb nestled in her parents' bed. This tale of the London Blitz delves into the increasingly common experience of "emergence" after a disaster and the necessity of becoming, especially for marginalized communities, our own first responders"-- $c Provided by publisher. 505 0 $a Old polio -- Relationship tips -- My withered legs (what is lost) -- Becoming a daughter -- Crip humor -- Spanish lessons -- Preparing for the fall -- How to release a rejected novel -- The last party -- This is about saving my life -- Writing while high -- Battle stations -- Alligator protocols -- Old. Lady. Dabbler. -- The beginning and the end -- Day thirty-five -- I say my name. 600 10 $a Lambert, Sandra Gail. 650 0 $a Women authors, American $v Biography. 830 0 $a Crux (Athens, Ga.) 941 $a 1 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20240409012904.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=CDF0CF36F63611EE80258AC022ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b JIUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search