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A review by ageckocalledachilles
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories From the Twenty-first Century by Alice Wong
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
Everyone should read this. It covers a multitude of disability rights issues as well as being incredibly intersectional. Some sections discuss very difficult/triggering issues, but many of these come with content warnings
Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Transphobia, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Excrement, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Acephobia/Arophobia, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and Colonisation
Moderate: Genocide, Religious bigotry, Pregnancy, and Abandonment
Minor: Miscarriage