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Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century by Alice Wong

60 reviews

annemaries_shelves's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

A stunning essay anthology centering disabled voices from a diverse range of authors and experiences. The collection is organized in four sections: Being, Becoming, Doing, and Connecting and each provides unique, and intersectional perspectives around this broader element of the disabled experience.

Most of the essays were under 10 pages, which made for a great sampler of each writer’s work and stories without becoming overwhelming. While there were essays I loved more than others, each one gave me something to think about and each essay made sense as part of a greater anthology whole. The trigger content warnings at the top of each relevant essay was also appreciated. And I spent the whole time reading with a pencil in hand, underlining and starring and commenting - just annotating the whole book really.

A few above and beyond elements: You can also access a plain language version of the book on the disability visibility project website, which I think is amazing. The back of the book contains bios of each contributing author as well as recommended additional reading, which I will be taking advantage of. Since Disability Visibility was primarily focused on disabled authors in the USA (with a few exceptions) the book also reinforced my desire to read from Canadian, and other non-American disability perspectives.

I recommend this as introductory/extremely important reading for everyone. For me, Disability Visibility is just the first step in reading and learning more about disability justice and exploring disabled authors’ fiction, non-fiction, and other creative works. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body shaming, and Chronic illness

Moderate: Abortion, Cancer, Death, Fatphobia, Forced institutionalization, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, and Suicidal thoughts

s0rry_im_b00ked's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Rape, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Abandonment, Suicide attempt, and Medical trauma

Minor: Acephobia/Arophobia

libbyhb's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

Disability Visibility is not only a great read, but it's also something I can see myself returning to again and again to keep drawing more knowledge/insight from certain essays. I read it over the course of a couple weeks, an essay or two at a time, and I'd recommend either doing that or just reading random essays as they strike your interest. It's a lot of valuable content in a small-ish book! These essays particularly stood out to me on this first read-through: "The Isolation of Being Deaf in Prison" by Jeremy Woody, "Guide Dogs Don't Lead Blind People. We Wander as One" by Haben Girma, "Six Ways of Looking at Crip Time" by Ellen Samuels, "On NYC's Paratransit, Fighting for Safety, Respect, and Human Dignity" by Britney Wilson, and "On the Ancestral Plane: Crip Hand-Me-Downs and the Legacy of Our Movements" by Stacey Milbern.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism and Sexual assault

Moderate: Medical content

mandkips's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Chronic illness, and Medical content

Moderate: Sexual assault

elliecs3's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Racism, and Sexual assault

dramaqueentears's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional informative fast-paced

5.0

This book was so worth the wait from the library. I loved the variation of essay topics. I learned more about ableism in prisons. The essay about parenting with a disability truly touched my heart as a disabled woman who wants to be a mother someday. I constantly doubt myself because of internalized ableism but that essay brought tears to my eyes. I deeply understood the emotions of anger, love, and community in this anthology. I didn’t know how hungry I was to read something meant for me until Disability Visibility was in my hands. I recommend this to all people, but you should especially read this if you’re disabled.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Racism, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Colonisation, Forced institutionalization, and Terminal illness

arlangrey17's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Death, Grief, Hate crime, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and Terminal illness

jbabbm's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Rape, Pregnancy, Physical abuse, Medical content, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, and Chronic illness

clarabooksit's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective fast-paced

4.75

An incredible essay collection. This is a must-read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Acephobia/Arophobia, Body shaming, Bullying, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Forced institutionalization, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Misogyny, Police brutality, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Transphobia

Moderate: Abortion, Miscarriage, and Sexual content

I really appreciated that nearly every essay in this collection begins with content warnings, so the reader knows what they’re about to read.

biacedbooks's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

Very informative about living with a disability. I like that it was intersectional and talked about being queer, trans, BIPOC, etc., and how that relates to disability.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Rape, Racism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Transphobia, and Violence