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A review by hellalibrary
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories From the Twenty-first Century by Alice Wong
emotional
funny
informative
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
If you’re looking to read this and be inspired - don’t. “The word inspired is reviled by many in the disability community, who often are the subject of pity or undue praise merely for existing. But disabled people don’t exist to make abled people feel better about their abledness.”
I realized that before I read Get a Life, Chloe Brown, I don’t think I have ever read a book about a person with a disability, or by a person with a disability. And that’s on me! One of the things I do truly love about Booksta is being exposed to so many different books ranging in so many topics and voices that I wouldn’t normally read or even think to read. After seeing many followers, whose rec’s I always trust, hype this anthology up I knew I had to read it. And I’m really glad I did.
Alice Wong has done an extraordinary job at putting together a collection with a huge range of perspectives and life experiences. For people like me, unfamiliar with disability literature, this served as a great introduction to disability theory.
Through interviews, speeches, essays, and more, Disability Visibility covers topics from love to the Me Too movement, the horrors of the industrial prison complex, the shortcomings of the fashion industry, and BLM. You will get angry, you will laugh, you will cry. A truly wonderful reading experience. This is a 10/10 rec for me.
I realized that before I read Get a Life, Chloe Brown, I don’t think I have ever read a book about a person with a disability, or by a person with a disability. And that’s on me! One of the things I do truly love about Booksta is being exposed to so many different books ranging in so many topics and voices that I wouldn’t normally read or even think to read. After seeing many followers, whose rec’s I always trust, hype this anthology up I knew I had to read it. And I’m really glad I did.
Alice Wong has done an extraordinary job at putting together a collection with a huge range of perspectives and life experiences. For people like me, unfamiliar with disability literature, this served as a great introduction to disability theory.
Through interviews, speeches, essays, and more, Disability Visibility covers topics from love to the Me Too movement, the horrors of the industrial prison complex, the shortcomings of the fashion industry, and BLM. You will get angry, you will laugh, you will cry. A truly wonderful reading experience. This is a 10/10 rec for me.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual assault