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

43 reviews

clarabooksit's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective fast-paced

4.75

An incredible essay collection. This is a must-read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Acephobia/Arophobia, Body shaming, Bullying, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Forced institutionalization, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Misogyny, Police brutality, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Transphobia

Moderate: Abortion, Miscarriage, and Sexual content

I really appreciated that nearly every essay in this collection begins with content warnings, so the reader knows what they’re about to read.

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

tinana's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring sad

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Mental illness, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Abortion and Sexual assault

bookishnatalia's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Acephobia/Arophobia, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Sexism, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, and Xenophobia

bowlofnicole's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism and Chronic illness

Moderate: Body shaming, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual assault, Rape, Physical abuse, Mental illness, and Grief

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

caidyn's review against another edition

emotional informative sad fast-paced

4.5

If you want a collection of essays that highlight disabled living, I highly recommend it. I've found that I don't know much about disabled life because I'm an abled person in an ableist society. And, I wanted to do something about it so I can properly help a diverse set of populations in my career and personal life. I really enjoyed these essays and how broad they were, although they all talked about ableism and how our society is set up to shunt disabled people to the side. It talks about the intersections of race, sexuality, gender, and class. It really is a great read, although hard to stomach at times. I highly recommend it and plan on having a finished copy so I can revisit it as needed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Homophobia, Medical content, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Racism, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, and Transphobia

Moderate: Abortion

teacupsandfirereads's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring slow-paced

4.0

Let me preface this with I am not an anthology fan. I find it hard to keep track of the different stories. But I knew I needed to read this one, because the stories and writers were something and people I could relate to.  Each story had a unique and important message and each one was special in it's own right. For that, I highly recommend everyone, and I mean everyone, read this book. Because although I have a disability myself, I learned something new from each and every one of these stories.

Some of my favourites include:
Guide Dogs Don't Lead Blind People. We Wander as One. by Haben Girma
Nurturing Black Disabled Joy by Keah Brown
Why my Novel is Dedicated to my Disabled Friend Maddy by A. H. Reaume

I wish that there was a collection of these types of stories from a Canadian perspective. I also appriciat that each story has content warnings, if necessary at the beginning, because let me tell you, there are many more than I can list.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Sexism, and Suicidal thoughts

allison_21's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative medium-paced

4.75

It's so important to hear stories from different perspectives, and to hear directly from groups that are so often marginalized. I found this book to be powerful not because it was trying to be inspirational (as it wasn't), but because it came from people sharing their own experiences. Parts of it left me encouraged, and parts left me outraged that events like those described happen to people, and not only that, but are fully allowed to happen within our current systems and laws. Thanks goes to the authors who shared their stories.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism and Chronic illness

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual assault, Self harm, Rape, Racism, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Medical content, Forced institutionalization, and Domestic abuse