Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body

Rebekah Taussig is an English teacher, writer, and disability advocate living in Kansas City, Missouri. She has a doctorate in creative nonfiction and disability studies from the University of Kansas and leads workshops on disability and representation, identity, and community. She has written articles and been interviewed for publications like TIME magazine on disability and its intersection with ableism, accessibility, body positivity, design, kindness, and motherhood—many topics she discusses in Sitting Pretty: The View From My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body. The title Sitting Pretty originated from Taussig’s popular Instagram account (@sitting_pretty), which she started in 2015 to write mini-memoirs about her experience with disability. She became paralyzed from cancer at the age of three and began to use a wheelchair in the first grade. She shares her experiences with disability in Sitting Pretty through essays that blend memoir and her work in disability studies.

Micah is Taussig’s second husband, a supportive figure in the book. The couple met through online dating, and he offers her a healthy relationship with someone who understands her accessibility issues. Together, they created a sustainable relationship. This contrasts with Taussig’s relationship with Sam, her first husband.