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Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories From the Twenty-first Century by Alice Wong
72 reviews
lottie1803's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Ableism, Chronic illness, Cancer, Body shaming, Bullying, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Racism
kirstym25's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Ableism, Medical trauma, and Chronic illness
Moderate: Racism, Mental illness, and Sexual assault
wandering_canuck's review against another edition
5.0
This is exactly what you don't expect to read: unapologetic, candid, genuine tales of the lived disabled experience. Do not expect inspiration porn or movie of the week stories of overcoming. This book gives space and voice to the realities of the day to day lived experiences of disabled people.
This book served to highlight my shameful ignorance and forced me to confront some of my own biases. This isn't a one-and-done type of book. I challenge you to read this book and not have your world shook.
Wong does a fantastic job of bringing together many types of voices. A common theme throughout is the unjust marginalization of disabled people and it's intersectionality with other invisibilized qualities, such as poverty, queerness, size, and race.
This is an absolute must-read and is deserving of a permanent spot on your bookshelf.
Graphic: Body shaming, Chronic illness, Sexual violence, Ableism, Rape, Sexual content, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Sexual assault, Violence, Classism, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Sexual harassment, and Homophobia
Moderate: Bullying, Chronic illness, Racism, Addiction, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Classism
waybeyondblue's review
5.0
Graphic: Ableism, Mental illness, Bullying, Medical trauma, Chronic illness, and Body shaming
Moderate: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Emotional abuse, Death, Medical content, and Homophobia
spacekee's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Medical trauma, Suicidal thoughts, Racism, Ableism, and Chronic illness
thenovelmaura's review against another edition
4.0
This book inspired me to do some research into organizations that promote accessibility solutions people with disabilities, and I ultimately set up a recurring donation to The Kelsey, a disability-forward housing solutions nonprofit. If that's not a testament to the effectiveness of this collection, I don't know what is!
Graphic: Chronic illness, Medical trauma, and Ableism
Moderate: Sexual assault and Racism
maddy4prezident's review against another edition
3.75
Graphic: Homophobia, Hate crime, Forced institutionalization, Body shaming, Ableism, Chronic illness, Death, Medical trauma, Police brutality, and Racism
sorenzs's review against another edition
4.5
Standout pieces:
Radical Visibility by Sky Cubacub
How to Make a Paper Crane from Rage by Elsa Sjunnerson (probably my favorite)
Why My Novel is Dedicated to My Disabled Friend Mandy by A. H. Reaume
Graphic: Ableism and Chronic illness
yourbookishbff's review against another edition
5.0
Loosely framed as essays, these range from first-person narratives to transcribed Ted talks to eulogies to artist manifestos to poetry. Several of these stories reflect the trauma and abuse experienced by those living at complex intersections of marginalization, and I was thankful that every essay includes detailed content and trigger warnings at the start. Through this unvarnished truth-telling, the intention of the anthology is made crystal clear - this is a collection rightfully built to amplify disabled voices for the benefit of disabled people and not for the gaze or comfort of non-disabled people.
I read this slowly, over more than a month, and I’m grateful I took my time with it. It challenged me to think about my own areas of deep-seated privilege and about the systems and spaces I have made inaccessible because of this privilege. It expanded my understanding of and respect for inclusivity and helped me to see the ways in which disability rights work has been consistently constrained by non-disabled people. These stories force us to ask, as s.e. smith does in their essay “The Beauty of Spaces Created for and by Disabled People:” “How can we cultivate spaces where everyone has that soaring sense of inclusion, where we can have difficult and meaningful conversations?”
Graphic: Ableism
Moderate: Medical content, Mental illness, Police brutality, Suicidal thoughts, Chronic illness, Violence, Abandonment, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical trauma
Minor: Cancer and Child abuse
In this collection of essays, trigger warnings for each individual essay are included at the start of each essay.lipstickitotheman's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Ableism
Moderate: Hate crime, Pregnancy, Body shaming, Bullying, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Police brutality, Rape, Self harm, Confinement, Sexual assault, Sexism, Domestic abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual harassment, Terminal illness, Classism, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Murder, Chronic illness, Sexual violence, and Racism