Reviews tagging 'Medical trauma'

Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness by Melanie Yergeau

2 reviews

courtneyfalling's review

As an autistic, multiply disabled reader, I was excited for this—I feel like I've read a lot of good, more radical disability scholarship that cited Yergeau or heard about her work via other scholar-activists. But this just wasn't the book for me. Parts of the argument were interesting and I like how this book fucks with combining traditional academic discourse with personal reflections and profanity, but a lot felt extra-familiar from my lived experience and other reading already, except from a higher level and with more abstract language and terminology. And I didn't want to finish it just to give it a low rating when I am glad that Yergeau's writing and work exist. So maybe I'll try a different book in the future.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism and Medical trauma

egmamaril's review

challenging funny informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

Scatological description

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Ableism, Mental illness, Forced institutionalization, and Medical trauma

Funny, compelling, invigorating. A must read for anyone interested in rhetoric, queerness, autism, disability, and philosophy.