Resources & Reading List

The Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation

American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD)

Get America Covered

Generation Patient

Color of Crohn’s & Chronic Illness

Work Inclusively

Short-form Reading List

Chronic Illnesses Are Devastating the Finances of Young Americans Like Me, by Samantha Reid

Health Care Access is Hampered by Administrative Hurdles by Samantha Reid

“Cratered”: On Having Crohn’s Disease, by Amy Feltman

Bitch Media’s “In Sickness” Series

Book List - Non-fiction

"Invisible: How Young Women with Severe Health Issues Navigate Work, Relationships, and the Pressure to Seem Just Fine" by Michele Lent Hirsch

"Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick" by Maya Dusenbery

“Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice” by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

“Disability Visibility” by Alice Wong

“Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted” by Suleika Jaouad

"Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness" by Susannah Cahalan

“Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist” by Judith Heumann

"How to Be Sick" by Toni Bernhard

“Ask Me About My Uterus” by Abby Norman

Book List - Fiction

“Get a Life, Chloe Brown” by Talia Hibbert

“Sick Kids in Love” by Hannah Moskowitz