The Templum publishing house recently published the collection "Disability: Texts for Disabled Bodies", the first of its kind in the Macedonian language. The book is published in the theory edition "20/21 Century".

The content of the book includes five influential essays in the field of "disability studies", and in the second part there are twenty short essays on the body.

The editor Nikola Gelevski writes in the preface that the book aims to encourage the knowledge about disability in our country, believing that the intellectual knowledge about disability, above all, will provide a better place in society for people with disabilities. At the same time, these texts should bring the knowledge of disability closer to the wider community, which will encourage empathy, solidarity and inclusion in society.

In one of the featured essays, Leonard Davis, a world-renowned expert on disability studies, points out the fact that people with disabilities make up 15 percent of the population - the largest physical minority in many countries. According to him, "the fact that many of the physically injured today are likely to become injured tomorrow" raises the question: "Why is disability not recognized as a potentially universal condition? "Even though she really is."

- This small collection on disability wants to be, therefore, an intellectual reservoir of key ideas for disability, an incentive for the development of activism of people with disabilities in our country. Activism often needs reflections and reflections to catch up with the wider environment, but also to better understand itself - says the preface of the collection.

(The text was published in "Cultural Press" No. 113, in the print edition of the newspaper "Free Press" on January 22-23, 2022)