A review by clarabooksit
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century by Alice Wong

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective fast-paced

4.75

An incredible essay collection. This is a must-read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Acephobia/Arophobia, Body shaming, Bullying, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Forced institutionalization, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Misogyny, Police brutality, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Transphobia

Moderate: Abortion, Miscarriage, and Sexual content

I really appreciated that nearly every essay in this collection begins with content warnings, so the reader knows what they’re about to read.