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4.33 AVERAGE
4.33 AVERAGE
Would not recommend audio as a medium for this book if you can avoid it. Judging the book as I experienced it though, I didn't find that it brought anything new to the table for me either as a book about disability rights/justice, disability activism, or about Alice Wong herself. There were a lot of interview and essay snippets, some conversations, etc. but it wasn't cohesive and was occasionally repetitive. However, I am still looking forward to reading Disability Intimacy. I have a feeling that essay collection will have a little more continuity with a shared thesis.
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This was good, but since I follow the author on social media, there wasn't much new for me here.
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Alice Wong is an incredibly important figure in conversations around disability right now. In this memoir, which is a compilation of interviews, essays, and speeches Wong has given or written over the last twenty years, she does not pull any punches with her feelings on the world around us and how the disabled community is treated.
Wong has a strong voice that demands change for the disabled community while lifting up other ignored voices. She does not let ableist people get away with their actions and calls out the intersections of ableism, white supremacy, misogyny, and other forms of oppression.
Her essays are poignant, funny, and, at times, joyful. At other times, they deal with the worst things one can deal with.
As a disabled person, Wong is someone I look to for cues as to how to handle the ableist culture we all are forced to live under. She does not acquiesce to what the world might demand of her (her pandemic section especially highlights this), and she focuses on disabled life, happiness, success, and survival against a world that would rather not see us.
Wong has a strong voice that demands change for the disabled community while lifting up other ignored voices. She does not let ableist people get away with their actions and calls out the intersections of ableism, white supremacy, misogyny, and other forms of oppression.
Her essays are poignant, funny, and, at times, joyful. At other times, they deal with the worst things one can deal with.
As a disabled person, Wong is someone I look to for cues as to how to handle the ableist culture we all are forced to live under. She does not acquiesce to what the world might demand of her (her pandemic section especially highlights this), and she focuses on disabled life, happiness, success, and survival against a world that would rather not see us.
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
reflective
fast-paced