Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

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

48 reviews

madelonpaige's review against another edition

challenging informative slow-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body shaming, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Medical trauma, Racism, and Suicidal thoughts

albernikolauras's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

A stellar collection. Each story was uniquely its own as this is just a collective group of different disabled authors/artists/activists. I enjoyed some essays more than others, as is the nature to this collection. But I found the variety in this collection to be captivating. I never knew what to expect next, and I learned so much. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Chronic illness, Medical content, and Racism

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

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

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

solenekeleroux's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Transphobia

questingnotcoasting's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

This was a brilliant collection of essays from such a wide range of contributors. Most of them were perspectives I've rarely, if ever read from and I learnt so much. It's accessible, engaging and really informative. Several of the pieces discuss the social vs medical models of disability which I first learnt about in Rebekah Taussig's Sitting Pretty and I feel like I have a much better understanding of it now. It's rare I read a story or essay collection where none of the pieces feel weaker than the others but in this case I thought they were all great. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body shaming, Bullying, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, and Terminal illness