A review by spiritedfaraway
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories From the Twenty-first Century by Alice Wong

challenging emotional informative medium-paced

5.0

Stories are the closest we can come to shared experience… Like all stories, they are most fundamentally a chance to ride around inside another head and be reminded that being who we are and where we are, and doing what we’re doing, is not the only possibility.

       – Harriet McBryde Johnson 

Everyone should read this.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body shaming, Bullying, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Forced institutionalization, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Fatphobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Sexism, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Police brutality, Grief, Abortion, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Slavery