Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

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

5 reviews

puttingwingsonwords's review against another edition

dark informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

It was very interesting and I enjoyed the way it wove a narrative out of the author’s personal stories, fairy tales and research. I’m always afraid I’ll get bored and stop retaining information when listening to a nonfiction audiobook, but with this one I was always engaged and just wanted to keep listening! If you have any interest in disability history and/or fairy tales I recommend this book! It’s not a light read as far as the subject matter goes — through the ages disabled people have experienced & still experience terrible violence and discrimination — but I never found it depressing (at least not for long). I learned a lot & saw the deeper history behind some things I already knew.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism and Bullying

Moderate: Medical content, Mental illness, Misogyny, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Abandonment, Child abuse, Rape, and Murder

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

thedisabledreader's review against another edition

informative reflective

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Sexism, Ableism, Body shaming, Bullying, and Classism

armontheroad's review

emotional informative reflective fast-paced

3.0

Let me preface by saying this is a very important book and I would still recommend it to people. With that said, after debating for weeks about my rating for this book, I have settled on a 3-star rating. Throughout a good portion of this book, I was SURE that this would be a 4-star read. I had taken a star off, knocking it to a four, because of Amanda Leduc’s use of Male/Female terminology. Even in instances where it was literally impossible for Leduc to know someone’s biological sex, she boiled them down to their genitals. It was bizarre and highly uncomfortable reading as a Disabled trans person. What made the rating drop down to a three was the reference and praise of a known transphobic ableist author whose views have passed laws that have caused harm to many marginalized individuals. I think this book was well written, well researched, and very engaging. I loved the conversations about how deeply rooted ableism is in our society. I adored the balance between the memoir-ish sections and dissecting ableism in fairytales. I do think this has the potential to do lots of good. However, I must also acknowledge that this book does lots of harm to marginalized communities as well.

CWs/TWs: Stillborn, medical content, ableism, child death, murder, rape, hate crime, bullying, TERF language, harry potter reference, depression, suicidal ideation, mass shooting, gun violence, etc. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Hate crime, Gun violence, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Child abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Mass/school shootings, Rape, Ableism, and Bullying

ktrecs's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative reflective slow-paced

2.75

A good primer on disability justice and the power of storytelling, but ultimately too disorganised and disjointed to do anything new or interesting. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism

Moderate: Bullying, Body shaming, Mental illness, and Chronic illness

Minor: Blood, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Medical content, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence