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

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mmatti300's review

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hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

Damn. Leduc’s writing is superb and her grasp of the matter is so profound, I’m ready to go riot on the streets for better disability representation right now. I’m so glad I heard about this book and I will be recommending it to anyone interested in representation and even just media. It’s so accessible and so well-written.
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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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