Reviews tagging 'Death'

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century by Alice Wong

27 reviews

pollyhall's review

challenging informative sad tense slow-paced

2.0

 
This was a very slow read, I had to look up a lot of words. I would have liked to see fewer essays but with more depth. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Ableism, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Car accident, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Fatphobia, Forced institutionalization, Gun violence, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Lesbophobia, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Racism, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Terminal illness, Transphobia, and Violence

deveyway's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Abandonment, Addiction, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, and Suicide attempt

annemaries_shelves's review

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

A stunning essay anthology centering disabled voices from a diverse range of authors and experiences. The collection is organized in four sections: Being, Becoming, Doing, and Connecting and each provides unique, and intersectional perspectives around this broader element of the disabled experience.

Most of the essays were under 10 pages, which made for a great sampler of each writer’s work and stories without becoming overwhelming. While there were essays I loved more than others, each one gave me something to think about and each essay made sense as part of a greater anthology whole. The trigger content warnings at the top of each relevant essay was also appreciated. And I spent the whole time reading with a pencil in hand, underlining and starring and commenting - just annotating the whole book really.

A few above and beyond elements: You can also access a plain language version of the book on the disability visibility project website, which I think is amazing. The back of the book contains bios of each contributing author as well as recommended additional reading, which I will be taking advantage of. Since Disability Visibility was primarily focused on disabled authors in the USA (with a few exceptions) the book also reinforced my desire to read from Canadian, and other non-American disability perspectives.

I recommend this as introductory/extremely important reading for everyone. For me, Disability Visibility is just the first step in reading and learning more about disability justice and exploring disabled authors’ fiction, non-fiction, and other creative works. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body shaming, and Chronic illness

Moderate: Abortion, Cancer, Death, Fatphobia, Forced institutionalization, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, and Suicidal thoughts

arlangrey17's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Death, Grief, Hate crime, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and Terminal illness

biacedbooks's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

Very informative about living with a disability. I like that it was intersectional and talked about being queer, trans, BIPOC, etc., and how that relates to disability.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Rape, Racism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Transphobia, and Violence

solenekeleroux's review

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Transphobia

leighannebfd3b's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Abortion, Body shaming, Bullying, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Fatphobia, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Homophobia, Infertility, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racism, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, and Transphobia