Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

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

48 reviews

amressing's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body shaming, Cancer, Chronic illness, Terminal illness, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Rape, Racism, Medical content, and Medical trauma

tinana's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring sad

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Mental illness, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Abortion and Sexual assault

bookishnatalia's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Acephobia/Arophobia, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Sexism, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, and Xenophobia

leighannebfd3b's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Abortion, Body shaming, Bullying, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Fatphobia, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Homophobia, Infertility, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racism, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, and Transphobia

caidyn's review against another edition

emotional informative sad fast-paced

4.5

If you want a collection of essays that highlight disabled living, I highly recommend it. I've found that I don't know much about disabled life because I'm an abled person in an ableist society. And, I wanted to do something about it so I can properly help a diverse set of populations in my career and personal life. I really enjoyed these essays and how broad they were, although they all talked about ableism and how our society is set up to shunt disabled people to the side. It talks about the intersections of race, sexuality, gender, and class. It really is a great read, although hard to stomach at times. I highly recommend it and plan on having a finished copy so I can revisit it as needed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Homophobia, Medical content, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Racism, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, and Transphobia

Moderate: Abortion

allison_21's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative medium-paced

4.75

It's so important to hear stories from different perspectives, and to hear directly from groups that are so often marginalized. I found this book to be powerful not because it was trying to be inspirational (as it wasn't), but because it came from people sharing their own experiences. Parts of it left me encouraged, and parts left me outraged that events like those described happen to people, and not only that, but are fully allowed to happen within our current systems and laws. Thanks goes to the authors who shared their stories.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism and Chronic illness

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual assault, Self harm, Rape, Racism, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Medical content, Forced institutionalization, and Domestic abuse

yasminreads's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

Incredible insight into so many different personal experiences. I bought this book with the intention of educating myself but I gained so much more. The joy, strength and spirit of each writer is palpable. Its a very well curated book where each essay is as good as the one before. Each piece of writing will include a content warning if required so if any I've listed put you off, just know that they are not applicable to the entire work. 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Xenophobia

Minor: Abortion, Blood, Transphobia, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Slavery, Rape, Racism, Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, Forced institutionalization, Excrement, and Death of parent

piperlee's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

Wow. I feel like this book should be required reading for anyone seeking to understand diversity and deepen their activism and empathy. What an amazing compilation of so many powerful disabled writers, activists, artists and more. So much diversity is reflected in this book, as well, adding such beautifully rich layers to every narrative.
As someone recently disabled, I felt incredibly seen and understood through the voices of multiple contributors.
Highly, highly recommend.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, and Medical content

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Grief, Mental illness, Racism, Sexism, and Terminal illness