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

44 reviews

missrosymaplemoth's review

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism

Moderate: Body shaming and Grief

Minor: Bullying, Chronic illness, and Death

abookandaspotoftea's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual harassment, and Fatphobia

elizabethkore's review

challenging hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

A book that should be a modern primer for disability studies and narrative. Covers a variety of topics, centering and advocating for disability narratives. Authors highlighted are from a variety of backgrounds, with physical and/or mental disabilities, and predominately QTPOC identities.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Abandonment, Terminal illness, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Sexual assault, Self harm, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Rape, Racism, Misogyny, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Medical trauma, Medical content, Islamophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Homophobia, Hate crime, Grief, Genocide, Gaslighting, Forced institutionalization, Emotional abuse, Dysphoria, Domestic abuse, Death, Chronic illness, Body shaming, Cancer, and Bullying

Moderate: Transphobia, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Stalking, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racial slurs, and Racism

Minor: Vomit

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

leahlovesloslibros's review

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

I really enjoyed hearing about a variety of disabilities, specifically first-person accounts. There were some disabilities in this book that I hadn't even considered, which is why books like this are so important: so individuals can become more educated and aware. This book should be required reading in school.

A pleasant surprise while reading this book is that I found some validation of my own. I have spent years dealing with impostor syndrome surrounding some of my own disabilities, especially since they are not considered disabilities by all individuals. This book really helped me realize that my disabilities are not only real, but valid. I want to help bring more awareness to both visible and invisible disabilities. We [individuals with disabilities] deserve that.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism

Moderate: Cursing, Colonisation, Genocide, Racism, Sexism, Sexual assault, Violence, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Racial slurs, Alcoholism, Cancer, Misogyny, Rape, Forced institutionalization, Body shaming, Death of parent, Abortion, Bullying, Torture, Self harm, Police brutality, Murder, and Domestic abuse

Additional CW/TW: erasure, incarceration, intersectionality, child neglect, poison, natural disasters Rep: AAPI, BIPOC, disabled, trans, nonbinary, ace

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

madelonpaige's review against another edition

challenging informative slow-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body shaming, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Medical trauma, Racism, and Suicidal thoughts

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

albernikolauras's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

A stellar collection. Each story was uniquely its own as this is just a collective group of different disabled authors/artists/activists. I enjoyed some essays more than others, as is the nature to this collection. But I found the variety in this collection to be captivating. I never knew what to expect next, and I learned so much. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Chronic illness, Medical content, and Racism