Lennard J. Davis. "Introduction: Normality, Power, and Culture." The Disability Studies Reader, edited by Lennard J. Davis, Routledge, 1997, pp. 1-8. [I ask the students to read the first pages of the chapter, ending after the quotation on the very top of page 8).

Bechdel, Alison. "Chapter One: Old Father, Old Artificer." Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, Houghton Mifflin, 2006, pp. 1-23.

Murata, Sayaka. Convenience Store Woman, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori, Granta, 2019, pp. 1-21. (This novel is not divided into chapters and page numbers may vary between editions. This extract should end just before the section that begins "I arrive at the Hiiromachi Station Smile Mart every morning at eight.")

Cadogan, Garnette. "Black and Blue." The Norton Reader: An Anthology of Nonfiction, edited by Melissa A. Goldthwaite et al., 15th ed., W. W. Norton, 2020, pp. 183–91.

Bordo, Susan. "Reading the Slender Body." Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body, University of California Press, 1995, pp. 185-187, 191-198, 202-204. ( There are multiple section headings under this chapter. I generally extract and assign only the introductory section along with "Slenderness and the Inner State of Self" and "Slenderness, Self-Management and Normalization."

Taylor, Sunaura. "Beasts of Burden: Disability Studies and Animal Rights." Qui Parle, Vol. 19, No. 2, 2011, pp. 191-204. (The article continues to page 222, but I only assign the first half of it.)

Jemisin, N. K. "Introduction" and "The Ones Who Stay and Fight." How Long Til Black Future Month? Orbit Books, 2018, pp. vii-13.

I also typically scan and upload short sections from various writing guides including Rules for Writers to the "Resources on Grammar and Writing Technique" module to serve as a starting point for students' research for their presentations.