Reviews tagging 'Ableism'

Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement by Ashley Shew

21 reviews

crushedredpepper's review

emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

must read for learning about disability advocacy 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Ableism, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Cancer and Mental illness

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic and Forced institutionalization

kobooks's review against another edition

funny hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Ableism, and Genocide

Moderate: Medical trauma

Minor: Colonisation, Death, Classism, Antisemitism, and Forced institutionalization

kateellis00's review

challenging informative reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Ableism

Moderate: Racism, Violence, Antisemitism, and Death

12dejamoo's review

funny informative fast-paced

4.75

Very readable. I just flew through it! And it's packed with lots of interesting anectdotes and also really good thinking points.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism and Genocide

Minor: Death and Antisemitism

profzr's review

informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism

Moderate: Cancer and Chronic illness

Minor: Forced institutionalization, Suicide, Mental illness, Medical trauma, and Sexual assault

readingpicnic's review

5.0

I learned a lot, and I’ll definitely be checking out the other works referenced in this text! Very engaging read about how technology made for disabled people isn’t made with their input and how it’s framed as a “fix” or “necessary” to disabled people’s livelihoods, when that is often not true. The chapter about neurodivergence referencing Pokémon as a type of technology space that neurodivergent people can navigate their own way made me happy. Fuck autism speaks!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content and Ableism

Moderate: Racism

cosmicpanda's review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism

sdupont's review

informative reflective medium-paced

3.5

This book is very informative and presents a reframing of how the disabled community is viewed, portrayed, and spoken about. I did find that despite the short page count the book could be repetitive. I would still recommend giving it a read!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness and Ableism

Moderate: Medical content

Minor: Forced institutionalization and Medical trauma

jobaji's review

challenging emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

Really insightful and witty writing. I learned a lot. I recommend this to everyone! 
5/5 stars 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Chronic illness, Forced institutionalization, Cancer, and Medical content

30something_reads's review against another edition

funny informative inspiring fast-paced

4.5

This is a fantastic and quick read that I would recommend for literally anyone. New to nonfiction? Read this book. Think you're already familiar with the topic? Nah, read this book. 

I think, regardless of your familiarity with ableism and how it presents historically and in current society, this is still an accessible reminder that we all still carry unintended biases around disability. 

I read this via audio- which I highly recommend if you enjoy audiobooks. 

For me, the chapter around Neurodiversity really hit hard, but it was all very informative. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism

Minor: Cancer, Forced institutionalization, Pandemic/Epidemic, Chronic illness, Physical abuse, Medical trauma, and Mental illness