Go the Way Your Blood Beats

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There's an immediacy to the prose that sweeps you up in his story, and makes Go the Way Your Blood Beats a really engaging, emotive read. It's 1st January, which means you're probably being bombarded with lots of 'new year, new you' messaging and potentially feeling as though there's something about yourself you need to change or improve upon. During our time together Kierra shared her life lessons learned from a difficult, unstable childhood, navigating the business world as an young, black female entrepreneur and how her business and business partner taught her how to trust. Get a first-hand account ofwhat it’s really like to live with this condition, while witnessing what a pathway to diagnosis is really like.

Emmett has recently written a memoir Go the Way Your Blood Beats, a powerful story about finding your place in the world, embracing your identity, and fighting to be seen in a society which would still prefer the disabled to be invisible. Watch clips from the podcast >> Youtube | The Emma Guns ShowSign up for my newsletter here >> Newsletter. The book is raw and intimate, showing his childhood experiences of, in Emmett’s own words, his “double difference”.Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. But the 'miracle' doesn't occur, and Emmett must reckon with a world which views disabled people as invisible, unworthy of desire.

It sounds a strange thing to say given that I’ve got my happy ending myself but I think that, yes, it’s still very difficult for disabled people if they find themselves to be anything other than heterosexual – and even being heterosexual is quite challenging because ultimately society would still rather that we weren’t visible. Slightly Foxed brings back forgotten voices through its Slightly Foxed and Plain Foxed Editions, a series of beautifully produced little pocket hardback reissues of classic memoirs, all of them absorbing and highly individual. Featuring a vibrant rainbow design, and our super-sized Q logo, you won't find a more stylish way to make a statement. At aged 12, Emmett was selected to undergo a revolutionary gait surgery in America and was the subject of national media attention. Compulsive reading, unique, this beautifully crafted work is suffused with depth, affection, and remarkable observations.

Looking back at it in midlife I can see how much I’d internalised that ableism and the prejudices that I was experiencing in wider society. The author fears for his safety but then one of the two would-be assailants asks him if he needs any assistance. In his early adolescence, these feelings were compounded by the discovery that he was gay, and by becoming a media sensation for ground-breaking gait surgery in the US. This memoir put me through many big emotions, not least anger at how little some things have changed.

The author progressed through his childhood as he struggled with the way his cerebral palsy limited his physical abilities, and the way this influenced his relationship with his body. Laura has interrogated her relationship with her own body and food issues in her book Diet Starts Monday, but also takes a closer look at the ways in which diet culture and anti-fat bias seep into our consciousness and make us feel less than. Around the same time, Emmett was also realising he was gay, but thought that to be both disabled and queer was impossible, and that his sexuality would always remain theoretical, a secret. Lauren, Rina and Gemma discuss how their own views on disability have changed and Emmett shares why owning and writing his story was so important.I highly recommend this book to anyone seeking an authentic and heartfelt story that will stay with them long after they turn the final page. But the ‘miracle’ doesn’t occur, and Emmett must reckon with a world which views disabled people as invisible, unworthy of desire. At mainstream school, teachers refuse to schedule his classes on the ground floor, and he loses a stone from the effort of getting up the stairs. Emmett who has cerebral palsy and is gay explores his identity and also the identity that society puts on him due to how he is perceived. This book is warmth and emotional, is such a intimate memoir that is so intense and so beautiful that could be one of my favourite memoirs this years.

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