Huzzah! @jessicaslice.bsky.social’s UNFIT PARENT made it to @npr.org’s 2025 Books We Love list! 🤩

Unfit Parent is an excellent book that made @npr.org's 2025 Books We Love list! Check out our podcast episode with @jessicaslice.bsky.social here! @beaconpress.bsky.social

“I’ve experienced too many moments,” @jessicaslice.bsky.social writes @theatlantic.com, “trapped upstairs while my family laughs, argues, sings, or cries, just out of reach.” A beautiful, harrowing essay shepherded by @katecray.bsky.social. www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...

Food-distribution points in Gaza have practically become death traps, @ibishblog.bsky.social argues. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation may not have intended to create these conditions, but it now perpetuates them without correction and with full awareness.

“I’ve been disabled for 14 years,” Jessica Slice writes, “but have never lived somewhere safe where I can use all (or even most) of the rooms.” She reports on the indignities of seeking housing when exclusion is built into the architecture:

Just listened to this EXCELLENT episode of @mentalpod.bsky.social about what it’s like to be a parent with a disability. Boy was I ignorant before this 😮 A little less so now. So many epic quotes in there, too! podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/m...

Recommending @jessicaslice.bsky.social's Unfit Parent whether you're a parent and whether or not you're disabled. Taking an uncommonly broad stance on the subject, Slice gets to the heart of the matter via some harrowing detailed research: we need to imagine a different way of living – together.

"Unfit Parent takes readers through the more individual experience of bringing an infant home, and caring for a needy baby while inhabiting a needy body." MR manager Emily Wojcik looks at @jessicaslice.bsky.social's latest book, UNFIT PARENT: massreview.org/2025/07/08/r...

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Raising two kids while living with an autonomic nervous system disorder taught Jessica Slice to embrace interdependence. Her story is a reminder to parents of the power of asking for help.

“Becoming disabled pushed me into a relationship with actual life and actual people and our collective reality of all being fragile. It pushed me into being alive in a way that I wasn’t able to access before.” - @jessicaslice.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/annehele...

The truth is that disabled people are about as likely to report a good quality of life as a nondisabled person, despite assumptions to the contrary. As @jessicaslice.bsky.social will tell you, that goes for disabled parents, too. @thecut.com

“We [disabled parents] are showing that there are countless ways to have bodies and minds and that it’s OK to cross the border of what’s expected. We are not reminders of death—we are reminders of how full life can be.” — @jessicaslice.bsky.social

Today: #SarahRuhl has a new book of teacher appreciation essays; @jessicaslice.bsky.social's new memoir about motherhood and disability; Highlights with this month's Get Lit guests @lailalalami.com & the Moroccan musicians of Imal Gnawa Live at noon on 93.9 FM, AM820 or @wnyc.org

Accessibility is adjusting the environment to allow disabled people to participate. @jessicaslice.bsky.social says the belief that it’s worse to be disabled thrives in part because disability is a reminder that bodies and minds fail.

It’s legal in 22 states to remove a child because their parent is disabled. Let that sink in. @jessicaslice.bsky.social #DisabilityJustice

A wonderful @wbur.org interview with @beaconpress.bsky.social author @jessicaslice.bsky.social, discussing her book UNFIT PARENT: A DISABLED MOTHER CHALLENGES AN INACCESSIBLE WORLD. Take a listen! www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...

Parents are expected to insulate their children from many harms. When you’re a disabled parent like @jessicaslice.bsky.social, inaccessibility sets up more obstacles. #MotherhoodJourney

For @jessicaslice.bsky.social, becoming a parent isn’t all that different from becoming disabled. It’s often messy and unpredictable and releases the delusion of control. #Motherhood

“[A]s a society, we’re taught to fear disability… There’s disability everywhere, and society has been telling you for decades that this is a terrible way to live.” — @jessicaslice.bsky.social #DisabilityVoices

When @jessicaslice.bsky.social became disabled at 28, she underwent a necessary transformation — from an always on-the-go perfectionist to a more patient, more honest human. She says this second version of herself is more attuned to what kids need. #DisabilityVoices

Becoming disabled is a crash course in giving and receiving care, adapting to the unexpected, and accepting imperfection—all of which are crucial for parents. Jessica Slice on how disability can be a parenting strength: https://theatln.tc/vd9m2aYf

“Our culture’s deluded insistence that a nuclear family should be autonomous has far-reaching negative consequences, which include disabled parents losing custody of their kids.” @jessicaslice.bsky.social explores the disastrous challenges of parenting in an ableist system.

"For disabled parents, the built environment can be inaccessible," writes disabled author and speaker Jessica Slice. "But we are showing that there are countless ways to have bodies and minds".

There’s a profound idea at the heart of @jessicaslice.bsky.social’s UNFIT PARENT: Ableism is born of a fear of need and a fear of death. How can the nondisabled rewire that way of thinking? #DisabilityVoices

Becoming disabled is a crash course in giving and receiving care, adapting to the unexpected, and accepting imperfection—all of which are crucial for parents. Jessica Slice on how disability can be a parenting strength:

“If I imagine the nondisabled version of myself parenting, she would have had a very hard time,” says Jessica Slice, author of the new book ‘Unfit Parent.’ “My years of disability had forced me to let go of my inflated sense of control.”

“The nondisabled version of myself parenting would have had a very hard time,” says author Jessica Slice. “My disability forced me to let go.”

Happy #BookBDay, @jessicaslice.bsky.social! 🥳 UNFIT PARENT, her paradigm-shifting look at the landscape of disabled parenting and how disability culture holds the key to transforming the way we all raise our kids, is “a glorious, revelatory book.” — @edyong209.bsky.social

One group of parents is often overlooked: the 1 in 15 with disabilities. Author Jessica Slice, who became disabled years before becoming a mother, says the experience prepared her for parenthood. Ali Rogin speaks with Slice about her new book youtu.be/LT8HTmpYFhg

Becoming disabled is a crash course in giving and receiving care, adapting to the unexpected, and accepting imperfection—all of which are crucial for parents. Jessica Slice on how disability can be a parenting strength:

What #disability can teach us about becoming a new parent, by Jessica Slice, author of "Unfit Parent: A Disabled Mother Challenges an Inaccessible World." www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com #parenting

every paragraph of this short interview with Jessica Slice has at least one 💡about parenting, capitalism, & ableism/disability. unless you are a bodyless brain in a jar, you should take the time to read it. (& I can only imagine her book is amazing)

@jessicaslice.bsky.social’s UNFIT PARENT is an essential addition to the motherhood canon. She unsparingly explores the challenges but also spends time in the joys of disabled parenthood. #DisabledVoices @literaryhub.bsky.social

@beaconpress.bsky.social author @jessicaslice.bsky.social talks with @motherofitallpod.bsky.social about disabled parenting & life with a second child. Her book UNFIT PARENT: A DISABLED MOTHER CHALLENGES AN INACCESSIBLE WORLD is out 4/15! motherofitall.substack.com/p/the-wisdom...

Parenting in public as a disabled person is hard because people often have opinions, but the truth is that disability has a lot of overlapping skill sets with caring for a newborn. @jessicaslice.bsky.social #DisabilityVoices

Disability has informed @jessicaslice.bsky.social’s parenting. It has taught her to slow down, to give up control, and to accept that there’s no one way to be a parent. It’s very freeing. #DisabilityVoices @motherofitallpod.bsky.social

Jessica Slice’s new memoir is honest, funny, and so needed. She writes about disabled motherhood, ableism, and joy—with zero sugarcoating and so much heart. 📖 Read the WaPo story: www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/20... #DisabilityMemoir #ChronicIllness #DisabledMoms #DisabilityPride

Thank you @caitjgibson.bsky.social for this conversation and interview!

Disabled people have no choice but to learn how to be adaptable, and how to reject the impossible expectations of modern parenting; freed of those constraints, @jessicaslice.bsky.social says, their wisdom can be transformative for *all* parents: (gift link) wapo.st/4j3Tkxa

So grateful to @literaryhub.bsky.social for giving a shout-out to @jessicaslice.bsky.social’s UNFIT PARENT in this new nonfiction roundup! It comes out on April 15! 🙏🏽 #NewRelease2025

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks This is How We Play Jessica Slice, Caroline Cupp & Kayla Harren @jessicaslice.bsky.social @kaylaharren.bsky.social This was lovely, and a great conversation started with my 5-yr-old.

this essay from jessica slice about being a Bed Mom is so good www.romper.com/life/momming...

So proud of my friend Jessica Slice, a groundbreaking writer who is changing the world, a little bit at a time www.glamour.com/story/face-o...

My friend Jessica Slice has written a beautiful, wise book about disabled parenting that’s coming out soon. I can’t recommend it highly enough — including to folks who aren’t disabled and don’t have kids. And there’s a giveaway! www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...