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Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space by Amanda Leduc
17 reviews
kmae314's review
4.25
Graphic: Ableism, Medical content, Chronic illness, and Medical trauma
Moderate: Body shaming, Dysphoria, and Xenophobia
entanglednovels's review
4.0
Graphic: Ableism, Body shaming, Mental illness, and Medical content
lunatik's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Bullying, Ableism, Chronic illness, and Body shaming
danimacuk's review against another edition
2.5
Graphic: Ableism
Moderate: Body shaming and Bullying
Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Confinement, Death, Grief, Kidnapping, Medical content, Rape, Terminal illness, and Violence
lilacs_book_bower's review against another edition
4.0
However, as the chapters went on, the fairy tale connection/analysis felt like it was just name checked, with very brief discussions. From additional info at the end of the book, I read that one chapter was published as an article. While I am not sure if it was before, during, or after the writing of the book, that chapter had stood out to me, even before I knew it was published elsewhere. I can see the connection the author is making, but it felt a bit like, one of these things is not like the other. Unfortunately, the text also felt a bit repetitive toward the end; it felt like it lost purpose or focus. The author asks a lot of questions about dreaming of a different world or life, "What would it mean to a disabled girl to see X?" "What if the world looked like Y?" I did appreciate that she wrote about different models, like Medical model and Social model, etc, as those were not terms I had heard, so I definitely learned something, and I am very glad to have read this book.
(Amusing side note: I swear a Booktuber described this as fairy tale re-tellings about disabled people, and I clearly didn't look at the sub-title, so I was quite surprised to read the forward and discover this was non-fiction.)
Graphic: Rape, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Ableism, and Bullying
overbooked207's review
5.0
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
thedisabledreader's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Sexism, Ableism, Body shaming, Bullying, and Classism
toffishay's review
4.75
Graphic: Ableism and Bullying
Moderate: Rape, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Body horror, Body shaming, and Sexual violence
emilia_digi's review
5.0
Graphic: Body shaming, Infertility, Ableism, Cancer, Medical trauma, Mental illness, and Medical content
breezer's review against another edition
3.75
A particularly depressing statement that stuck with me:
In the stories, beauty comes to those who deserve it.
Graphic: Abandonment, Ableism, Body shaming, and Chronic illness
Moderate: Medical content and Rape