feeling_queer 's review for:

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

5.0

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This anthology of short essays all written by disabled people (the majority of whom are writers, organizers, activists, and lawyers) offers an intimate glimpse into the diversity of ‘disability’ — as an embodied experience, identity, orientation, and relationship to medical-industrial complexes and models. Some essays feel more informative, sharing statistics on disability and indigeneity for example, while others are deeply personal, exploring disability and sexual intimacy, self-love, vulnerability to sexual assault, disabled kinship, etc. I really enjoyed the range of topics and styles contained within the anthology, and that Alice includes people with diverse relationships to disability, race, gender, sexuality, etc. I highly recommend this for anyone looking to deepen their understandings of disability or to see some of their own experiences reflected.

Content warnings: the book uses content warnings at the start of each chapter, but some recurring themes are ableism; sanism; racism; sexism; sexual assault; settler colonialism