Take a photo of a barcode or cover
4.33 AVERAGE
4.33 AVERAGE
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
brb buying my tickets for "Rage Against the Ableism" in 2032. Year of the Tiger enrages you, saddens you, educates you, makes you laught out loud, disheartens you, gives you hope, and lights a fire. A must, must read.
"I would argue that disability justice...is just another word for love. And so is solidarity, access, and access intimacy. Those are just other ways of saying 'love.' I would argue that our work for liberation is in itself simply a practice of love, and it's one of the deepeset and most profound practices of love there is" (135)
"I would argue that disability justice...is just another word for love. And so is solidarity, access, and access intimacy. Those are just other ways of saying 'love.' I would argue that our work for liberation is in itself simply a practice of love, and it's one of the deepeset and most profound practices of love there is" (135)
Absolutely loved this book. It taught me so much about the power, caring found family qualities and essentialness of the disability community. While we have far to go and I am only beginning to learn about physical disabilities, I’m so grateful for the crip kinship Alice extends. How her skillful writing educates, empowers, makes me cry, makes me laugh and makes me hope for the future she is earnestly trying and urging us to help build.
challenging
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
medium-paced
Content Warnings
Graphic: Ableism
I came across this while looking for award-winning audiobooks (I am a very picky listener), then was intrigued by the concept. Scrapbook-style mixed media with photos, essays, art and posters, a few memes, and a crossword. How would that translate to audio? When my hold came in, I also made sure to look at the book in print/digitally because I wanted the pictures and wanted a sense of what some of the text formatting looked like. A typographic tagline of 3-10 words is different visually than can easily be conveyed orally. Despite that, I think the audiobook did a pretty astounding job of interpreting and performing this book. Wong's essays and interviews capture various elements of her life and the activism she's been involved with over the decades. I like that it's an atypical style of memoir, playing with form and expectation, centering the things she wants you to know matter. The introduction is awesome and raises many points that I wanted to dive deep into (the publishing industry being on board with memoirs by disabled people vs. other types of stories, cookbooks, graphic novels, etc. by disabled authors, to start).
I was curious to know (and have been unable to find out) more about the choice for narrator. Nancy Wu is talented, but there's a whole chapter about hearing disabled voices, and how radio that reflects the "good voice" that is commercially "pleasing to the ear" erases disabled people from what Wong calls "the symphony that is public media." Maybe there's more to the story I don't know, but it was an odd incongruence between the content of the essay and the voice reading it.
I was curious to know (and have been unable to find out) more about the choice for narrator. Nancy Wu is talented, but there's a whole chapter about hearing disabled voices, and how radio that reflects the "good voice" that is commercially "pleasing to the ear" erases disabled people from what Wong calls "the symphony that is public media." Maybe there's more to the story I don't know, but it was an odd incongruence between the content of the essay and the voice reading it.
This book is phenomenal. Alice Wong takes on very heavy topics creatively, seriously, and lightheartedly. I learned so much about my own internalized ableism and how pervasive ableism is in our society. I highly recommend.
funny
hopeful
informative
reflective
medium-paced