Review by booksjessreads - Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century

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

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

This is such an eye-opening anthology of essays from disabled people to speak their realities of being disabled in such an ablest world. The stories were so deeply personal and evoked so much emotion. I liked how through the audio, the essays felt more like dialogue with the reader, or like an official talk. Alice Wong and Alejandra Ospina read this with the right tone and made it so digestible despite the heavier content.

This book does not solely focus on disability, but contributors also discuss further intersections of identity, such as gender, sexuality, age, race and religion. This allows the reader to understand how society further disadvantages those with these intersections and offers a deeply moving and rage-inducing account of US society.

I enjoyed the audio so much I am getting my own print version to get more familiar with the text. This is essential reading and is one of the most informative reads I have read this year.

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

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