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

3 reviews

wandering_canuck's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

Beautiful and raw, this collection of essays is mind-blowingly honest and unapologetic. Told from the first person, these stories are wonderful complex and offer a glimpse into the just as complex and varied experiences of disabled people. 

This is exactly what you don't expect to read: unapologetic, candid, genuine tales of the lived disabled experience. Do not expect inspiration porn or movie of the week stories of overcoming. This book gives space and voice to the realities of the day to day lived experiences of disabled people.

This book served to highlight my shameful ignorance and forced me to confront some of my own biases. This isn't a one-and-done type of book. I challenge you to read this book and not have your world shook. 

Wong does a fantastic job of bringing together many types of voices. A common theme throughout is the unjust marginalization of disabled people and it's intersectionality with other invisibilized qualities, such as poverty, queerness, size, and race. 

This is an absolute must-read and is deserving of a permanent spot on your bookshelf. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Chronic illness, Sexual violence, Ableism, Rape, Sexual content, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Sexual assault, Violence, Classism, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Sexual harassment, and Homophobia

Moderate: Bullying, Chronic illness, Racism, Addiction, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Classism

youcancallmefi's review

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Abortion, Addiction, Body horror, Bullying, Cancer, Child death, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Colonisation, Deadnaming, Cultural appropriation, Domestic abuse, Dysphoria, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, and Forced institutionalization

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