Invisible Leashes

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)>What does it mean to be disabled in a place that claims inclusion but prioritizes compliance over true community?</strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)><em>Invisible Leashes</em></strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)> offers a powerful narrative that blends lived experience institutional critique and practical insights. Through the lens of a university staff member and Ed.D. student with a dynamic non-apparent disability </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)>Allison Christina Gainer</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)> reveals how classrooms HR offices research labs and field placements become sites of both struggle and advocacy.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)>At the center of this story is a service dog whose presence not only provides support but also disrupts hidden barriers and biases symbolizing the visibility of disability in spaces designed for conformity rather than inclusion. With candor and urgency Gainer interrogates the politics of disclosure the emotional labor of self-advocacy and the structural limitations of performative inclusivity in higher education.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)>A call for authentic accessibility and systemic change this book highlights the need for policy reform and disability leadership rooted in lived experience.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)>Ideal for students scholars and practitioners in Disability Studies Higher Education Administration Educational Leadership Social Work Counselling Human Resources Organizational Leadership Law and Public Policy as well as disability advocates committed to creating more inclusive institutions.</span></p><p></p>