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"Glorious, revelatory...joy that the entire world can learn from." - Ed Yong

"An impeccably researched, reported, and referenced love letter and an artfully drawn map Jessica Slice bends our beliefs about bodies."

- Angela Garbes

"A must-read for anyone committed to building a just and accessible world.”

- Aubrey Gordon

“Rigorously researched and open-hearted prose . . a fierce, compassionate, and unremittingly lucid book."

- Andrew Leland

“A beautiful, transformative book."

- Rachel Aviv

*STARRED REVIEW*

"No holds barred. . . A must for collections."

- Library Journal

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Hi! I am Jessica Slice. I am an author, essayist, and speaker.
I write, think, and talk about disability.

My upcoming book about disabled parenting, Unfit Parent, was shortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas Work-In-Progress Award. 

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Profiled as one of Glamour's 2024 Faces of Change

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Unfit Parent

A disabled mother challenges an inaccessible world

Navigating the joys, stigma, and discrimination of disabled parenting—and how the solutions offered by disability culture can transform the way we all raise our kids

Jessica Slice’s disability is exactly what her child needed as a newborn. After becoming disabled a handful of years prior, Jessica had done the hard work of disentangling her worth from productivity and learning how to prepare for an unpredictable and fragile world. Despite evidence to the contrary, nondisabled people and systems often worry that disabled people cannot keep kids safe and cared for, labeling disabled parents “unfit,” but disabled parents and culture provide valuable lessons for rejecting societal rules that encourage perfectionism and lead to isolation.

Unfit Parent will be available in print, large print, audio, and e-book!

This is such a glorious, revelatory book. Jessica Slice cuts through all the judgment and stereotypes to reveal the truth: disabled people are, in many ways, uniquely suited to and skilled at parenthood and are sources of wisdom, ingenuity, courage, and joy that the entire world can learn from. I am a nondisabled man with no children and I gained so much from this book.

Ed Yong,
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of An Immense World

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