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

8 reviews

danimacuk's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

2.5

I wanted to like this book, but unfortunately it was pretty disappointing to me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism

Moderate: Body shaming and Bullying

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Confinement, Death, Grief, Kidnapping, Medical content, Rape, Terminal illness, and Violence

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

ashleycmms's review against another edition

challenging reflective fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content and Bullying

Moderate: Death

Minor: Rape, Violence, and Mental illness

toffishay's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

What a powerful, emotional, informative, and interesting read. I was challenged to look at fairy tales and the stories that we tell ourselves in a new light. This book is part memoir in a way, which I was not expecting, but added so much. The style of writing is also fantastic and reads whimsical, almost like a fairy tale itself.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism and Bullying

Moderate: Rape, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Body horror, Body shaming, and Sexual violence

plantbasedbride's review

challenging informative medium-paced

5.0

A fascinating and eye-opening exploration of the connection between fairytales and disability. Amanda LeDuc did an excellent job of compiling a tremendous amount of information into a compulsively readable, concise, and understandable format.

Disability and mental illness are so often vilified in the stories we consume; used as shorthand to indicate that someone is unworthy or wicked. A trope in lazy writing that directly correlates with how disabled and mentally ill people are treated in their day-to-day lives.

How does it feel for a young person consuming media such as The Little Mermaid to see themselves represented in a way they never had, only to find that the heroine is magically cured of her "ailments" and gets her happy ending as an able-bodied woman, with legs and a voice. 

How does this reinforcement of the idea that a happy ending is inextricably linked with able bodiedness impact our preconceived notions and biases as we grow up?

This is a world-view shifting book that everyone should read.


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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Bullying, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Chronic illness, and Child death

Moderate: Sexual assault, Violence, Medical content, and Body horror

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

sunsetcity's review

challenging informative inspiring slow-paced

3.5

This was a very intersting and informative read about how disability is portrayed in fairy tales and super hero stories. Although I enjoyed both the research and memoir aspects of the book, the way they were intertwined seemed a little jarring and disconnected at times.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body shaming, Bullying, Chronic illness, Medical content, Mental illness, and Violence