A review by booksthatslay
Disability Intimacy by Alice Wong

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

An anthology that takes a tender, honest look at intimacy from the perspective of disabled folks. These essays explore the importance of community, caregiving, friendships, and access as they relate to the definition of intimacy. There is a lot of nuances when trying to define what intimacy could mean and this collection does an excellent job of showing the reader those nuances. Alice Wong has a gift for bringing together brilliant minds and compiling collections that will shift your perspective in the best way possible (see also Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century), and this collection was no exception. My own view of intimacy has been changed for the better.

Favorite Essays: “To the You That Used to Be Home: An Anatomy of a Disabled Heartbreak” by Mia Mingus, “Elegy for a Mask Mandate” by Ellen Samuels, “Staring at Curvature” by Travis Chi Wing Lau

Thank you to Vintage for the eARC on NetGalley.