Reviews tagging 'Body shaming'

Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life by Alice Wong

8 reviews

novella42's review

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted medium-paced

5.0

Easily one of the most important books I've read this year. I feel silly saying this, but I didn't know memoirs of disabled people could be... like... fun? And playful? And hilarious? And snarky? And also no-nonsense, anti-ableist, and badass, all at the same time! I'm really grateful for Alice's work in the world, and in the way she role models disabled joy and reclaiming her own damn story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Racism, Grief, Medical content, Ableism, Chronic illness, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death, Confinement, Suicide, Dysphoria, Xenophobia, Forced institutionalization, Body horror, Body shaming, Cursing, Terminal illness, Bullying, Classism, Hate crime, Genocide, and Gaslighting

Minor: Animal death, Child death, Excrement, Religious bigotry, and Fatphobia

hmetwade's review

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Bullying, Pandemic/Epidemic, Cursing, Medical content, Chronic illness, and Body shaming

questingnotcoasting's review against another edition

funny hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

3.5

This was an interesting take on a memoir. It's really a scrapbook made up mostly of Alice Wong's existing work, including essays, tweets, podcast transcripts and photos. Some of the pieces required more background knowledge than I had (for example about the US healthcare system) but generally I learnt a lot and the unconventional approach to memoir worked well. My only other experience of Alice Wong was through Disability Visibility so I'm pleased to now know more about her and her activism. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism and Medical content

Moderate: Body shaming

jayisreading's review against another edition

funny informative reflective medium-paced

4.25

This was a uniquely constructed memoir that was also moonlighting as a essay collection. Alice Wong, a disabled Chinese American activist, proudly and fiercely shares her lived experiences in these pages to also talk about ableism, disability justice, as well as intersectionality and the necessity to remember disability in these conversations. Quite a few of the pieces in this memoir/collection are excerpts from the public work she has done in advocating for disability justice. As a result, I did find that a lot of the writing got repetitive. I personally enjoyed the pieces she wrote that focused on her being Chinese American most.

Despite the repetitiveness, I do highly encourage everyone to read this, especially if you’re not entirely familiar with disability justice.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Medical content, and Chronic illness

Moderate: Racism and Body shaming

Minor: Death

tinyplanet's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism and Chronic illness

Moderate: Medical content, Medical trauma, and Cursing

Minor: Death, Body shaming, Grief, Racism, Body horror, and Bullying

lowbrowhighart's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Injury/Injury detail, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Grief, Racism, Ableism, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Body shaming, Genocide, Death, Classism, Dysphoria, and Hate crime

Minor: Religious bigotry, Excrement, and Murder

eslsilver's review

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism

Moderate: Medical content, Medical trauma, and Body shaming

laynemandros's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Classism, Medical trauma, Racism, Terminal illness, Medical content, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Death, Dysphoria, Genocide, and Ableism