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Image of Jessica Slice: a white woman wearing a white ball cap, red sweater, and jeans, in a power wheel chair. She is looking away from the camera at her Black daughter wearing a pink floral dress. They are outside on the sidewalk near purple flowers.

Learn more about Jessica's available and upcoming books.

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

Unfit Parent

A Disabled Mother Challenges an Inaccessible World

Beacon Press 2025

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. Available April 15, 2025. 

Book cover image of Unfit Parent by Jessica Slice; a textured book cover with oranges and greens and the subtitle: "A disabled mother challenges an inaccessible world."
Book cover image of This is How We Play by Jessica Slice and Carolina Cupp. An orange background showing 8 kids of varying abilities and ethnicities together on a sidewalk.

This Is How We Play

A Celebration of Disability and Adaptation

Dial Books 2024

Available now!  A jubilant, inclusive, luminously illustrated picture book that features families at play, each with a family member who has a disability.

Dateable

Swiping Right, Hooking Up, and Settling Down While Chronically Ill and Disabled

Hachette Books 2024

Book cover image of Dateable by Jessica Slice and Carolina Cupp; a textured book cover with yellows and blues and the subtitle: “Swiping right, hooking up, and settling down while chronically ill and disabled.”
Book cover image of Disability Visibility edited by Alice Wong; a cream colored book cover with a triangle design in various pastel colors with the subtitle: “First-person stories from the twenty-first century”.

Disability Visability

Imposter Syndrome and Parenting with a Disability

Vintage Books 2020

Jessica's essay was included in Alice Wong's acclaimed disability anthology.
Learn more about the Disability Visibility anthology here.

We Belong

Judy Heumann and the Work for Disability Rights

Dial Books 2025

Judy Heumann biography written with Judy about her work for disability rights in education. Coming in 2025.

Image of Judy Heumann, a woman wearing glasses in a wheelchair speaking at a microphone, with the text on image: “We Belong”.
Book cover image of This is How We Talk by Jessica Slice and Carolina Cupp. A blue & green background showing 6 kids and 2 adults of varying abilities and ethnicities together on a sidewalk.

This Is How We Talk

A Celebration of Disability and Connection

Dial Books 2025

Available in 2025. 

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