Reviews tagging 'Chronic illness'

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

27 reviews

selkiehusband's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness and Grief

Moderate: Ableism, Child abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

jouljet's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Sexual assault, Mental illness, Incest, Grief, Chronic illness, and Bullying

litlistening's review

challenging emotional informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Incest, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

achingallover's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective slow-paced

3.0

Rating may be revised later.
Part VI was really good and gave me a lot to think about, but other parts were repetitive, reductive, bad advice (eg regarding medication) or, just, lots of acronyms that weren't explained (the irony that it discusses making writing less academic to be accessible is not lost on me).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Incest, Medical content, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, and Vomit

kelseyland's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

An incredible collection of essays that put forth a radical, transformative vision of disability justice that centers the voices and needs of disabled people, and particularly folks who are queer, trans, Black, indigenous, and POC. The essays range from the theory-based (what does healing look like when it is done by and for disabled people, and what are its goals?) to the practical (hacks for going on a book tour as a disabled person). Even if you  have a baseline familiarity with disability justice, this book is likely to make you consider ideas, perspectives, and/or forms of oppression that you haven't before.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Suicidal thoughts, Chronic illness, and Death

Moderate: Incest, Suicide, Medical content, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Homophobia, Racism, Misogyny, Mental illness, and Panic attacks/disorders

emsim's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism

Moderate: Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Incest, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Vomit

alsoapples's review against another edition

challenging dark informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Incest, Homophobia, Medical content, Misogyny, Racism, Self harm, and Suicide