Reviews tagging 'Body shaming'

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

49 reviews

softgalaxy's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

One of the best books I’ve ever read. Everyone should read this. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body shaming, Bullying, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Xenophobia, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Colonisation

Moderate: Cancer, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Fatphobia, Hate crime, Mental illness, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Forced institutionalization, Sexual harassment, and Classism

Minor: Blood and Acephobia/Arophobia

atomicbritt's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Excrement, Medical content, Medical trauma, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Classism

cemeterygay's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective

5.0

A great collection of essays covering a wide variety of disabled perspectives. A must read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Racism, Sexual assault, and Medical trauma

Additional CW: eugenics

torturedreadersdept's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism

Moderate: Body shaming, Chronic illness, Confinement, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Gaslighting

purplepenning's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism and Chronic illness

Moderate: Body shaming, Racism, Sexual assault, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Sexual harassment

missrosymaplemoth's review against another edition

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism

Moderate: Body shaming and Grief

Minor: Bullying, Chronic illness, and Death

abookandaspotoftea's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Medical trauma, and Sexual harassment

elizabethkore's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

A book that should be a modern primer for disability studies and narrative. Covers a variety of topics, centering and advocating for disability narratives. Authors highlighted are from a variety of backgrounds, with physical and/or mental disabilities, and predominately QTPOC identities.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Forced institutionalization, Islamophobia, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Police brutality, Stalking, Suicide attempt, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Vomit

spiritedfaraway's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative medium-paced

5.0

Stories are the closest we can come to shared experience… Like all stories, they are most fundamentally a chance to ride around inside another head and be reminded that being who we are and where we are, and doing what we’re doing, is not the only possibility.

       – Harriet McBryde Johnson 

Everyone should read this.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body shaming, Bullying, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Forced institutionalization, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Fatphobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Sexism, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Police brutality, Grief, Abortion, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Slavery

leahlovesloslibros's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

I really enjoyed hearing about a variety of disabilities, specifically first-person accounts. There were some disabilities in this book that I hadn't even considered, which is why books like this are so important: so individuals can become more educated and aware. This book should be required reading in school.

A pleasant surprise while reading this book is that I found some validation of my own. I have spent years dealing with impostor syndrome surrounding some of my own disabilities, especially since they are not considered disabilities by all individuals. This book really helped me realize that my disabilities are not only real, but valid. I want to help bring more awareness to both visible and invisible disabilities. We [individuals with disabilities] deserve that.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism

Moderate: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Genocide, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Abortion, Death of parent, Murder, and Colonisation

Additional CW/TW: erasure, incarceration, intersectionality, child neglect, poison, natural disasters Rep: AAPI, BIPOC, disabled, trans, nonbinary, ace