Reviews tagging 'Chronic illness'

Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation by Sunaura Taylor

2 reviews

zombiezami's review

adventurous challenging informative inspiring reflective

5.0

This is a beautiful and powerful book. I enjoyed it very deeply. It expanded my knowledge and curiosity. I thought that the author balanced personal experience with academic research very well. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Blood, Child death, Genocide, Gore, Medical content, Mental illness, Racism, Vomit, and Xenophobia

Minor: Cancer and Bullying

Fainting, Slaughterhouses

reading_between_the_trees's review against another edition

challenging funny informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

Incredible intersectional text. Taylor writes succinctly about the topic, and includes the necessary breadth of the topics in the book (disability, animal activism, feminism, racism). Necessary read especially for animal rights activists/vegetarians/vegans. Taylor provides an in-depth critique of Peter Singer, Michael Pollan, PETA, and the ableism of animal activism that leaves out disability. She also highlights the beauty in the intersection between the two movements, talking about crip time, queer time, and animal time, and writing about her own experience of the world.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Body shaming, and Chronic illness

Moderate: Forced institutionalization, Violence, Racism, Sexism, Medical trauma, Mental illness, and Medical content