Reviews tagging 'Terminal illness'

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

19 reviews

spiritedfaraway's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative medium-paced

5.0

Stories are the closest we can come to shared experience… Like all stories, they are most fundamentally a chance to ride around inside another head and be reminded that being who we are and where we are, and doing what we’re doing, is not the only possibility.

       – Harriet McBryde Johnson 

Everyone should read this.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Racism, Chronic illness, Medical trauma, Emotional abuse, Bullying, Body shaming, Forced institutionalization, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Sexual assault, and Violence

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Toxic relationship, Racial slurs, Panic attacks/disorders, Colonisation, Abandonment, Grief, Police brutality, Transphobia, Terminal illness, Sexism, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Abortion, Domestic abuse, and Fatphobia

Minor: Slavery

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

dramaqueentears's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional informative fast-paced

5.0

This book was so worth the wait from the library. I loved the variation of essay topics. I learned more about ableism in prisons. The essay about parenting with a disability truly touched my heart as a disabled woman who wants to be a mother someday. I constantly doubt myself because of internalized ableism but that essay brought tears to my eyes. I deeply understood the emotions of anger, love, and community in this anthology. I didn’t know how hungry I was to read something meant for me until Disability Visibility was in my hands. I recommend this to all people, but you should especially read this if you’re disabled.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Racism, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Colonisation, Forced institutionalization, and Terminal illness

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

questingnotcoasting's review

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

This was a brilliant collection of essays from such a wide range of contributors. Most of them were perspectives I've rarely, if ever read from and I learnt so much. It's accessible, engaging and really informative. Several of the pieces discuss the social vs medical models of disability which I first learnt about in Rebekah Taussig's Sitting Pretty and I feel like I have a much better understanding of it now. It's rare I read a story or essay collection where none of the pieces feel weaker than the others but in this case I thought they were all great. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body shaming, Bullying, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, and Terminal illness

amressing's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body shaming, Cancer, Chronic illness, Terminal illness, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Rape, Racism, Medical content, and Medical trauma

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

piperlee's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

Wow. I feel like this book should be required reading for anyone seeking to understand diversity and deepen their activism and empathy. What an amazing compilation of so many powerful disabled writers, activists, artists and more. So much diversity is reflected in this book, as well, adding such beautifully rich layers to every narrative.
As someone recently disabled, I felt incredibly seen and understood through the voices of multiple contributors.
Highly, highly recommend.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, and Medical content

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Grief, Mental illness, Racism, Sexism, and Terminal illness