Reviews tagging 'Cancer'

Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space by Amanda Leduc

5 reviews

libraryoflanelle's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Chronic illness, Medical content, Ableism, Bullying, and Mental illness

Minor: Cancer

mraddd's review

informative reflective slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Ableism, Bullying, Mental illness, and Medical content

Minor: Cancer and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

overbooked207's review

dark emotional hopeful informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

📖 Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space by Amanda Leduc Book Review 📖

9th and last book of January 2023 and 9th of the year:

“I have nothing to prove to the world because the world has everything to prove to me. It is the world's responsibility to make space for my body, my words, my lopsided gait - our bodies, our words, our ways of moving through the world - to hold my childhood dreams of being a princess and a superhero close and help me understand that there is no need to want to be either. To start telling different stories about a body that might just look like mine, and reshaping the world to fit them. I am already enough. There is no need to be more.” - Amanda Leduc.

Discussing the portrayals of disability in fairy tales throughout history and how those representations influenced the people and world around them, this nonfiction book was informative and is one I definitely recommend! I also highly recommend picking up more books like this afterward to continue learning such as Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century edited by Alice Wong! TWs for ableism, abuse, body horror, bullying, cancer, chronic illness, depression, gun violence, incest, medical content, mental illness, rape, and suicidal thoughts📚🌹🗡🧜👨‍🦽🦻

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Body horror, Physical abuse, Ableism, Terminal illness, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual violence, Violence, Body shaming, Medical trauma, Medical content, Bullying, Chronic illness, and Emotional abuse

talonsontypewriters's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Medical content, Bullying, Chronic illness, and Mental illness

Moderate: Child death, Death, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Misogyny, Sexism, and Classism

Minor: Suicide, Cancer, Gore, Xenophobia, Racism, Rape, Fire/Fire injury, Animal death, Violence, Incest, Child abuse, and Torture

emilia_digi's review

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Infertility, Ableism, Cancer, Medical trauma, Mental illness, and Medical content