A review by gloomyboygirl
Resistance and Hope: Essays by Disabled People by Alice Wong

2.0

This felt kind of like a series of selfintroductory motivational speeches you'd hear at the beginning of an activist event. Very much 2016-2018 period piece without a lot of theory or meat, just introductions to individual activists and their thoughts on Trump era politics. I felt almost nothing about any of the book-- I was intrigued to maybe check out other writing by some of the contributors, but not because of the actual content of the essays usually, just because the biography after was interesting. Also, sorry, but the concept of saying "permanently disable Trump's electability" or whatever was... it floored me. I feel bad for such a negative review, it's nice to see so many disabled people centered, but the actual essays just weren't there and felt like introductions to more interesting thoughts.