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232 reviews
Mad at School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life by Margaret Price
4.5
Any university teacher/professor should read this book before complaining about their students. It gives great insight/empathy to students that is greatly lacking. I’m looking forward to her next book.
Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa
3.75
I liked the ending a lot. I wish I liked the book a lot more because the perspective is so important — the writing is just bad in some places. The last 50 pages when it focuses on generational and language stuff I found to be very interesting
The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson
4.0
Great ending. I think some of the plot building and tension was really artificial in that the characters just weren’t convincing, but overall the last ~150 pages made up for it.
Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability by Robert McRuer
4.75
Really generative and still has unanswered questions! Really think people haven’t taken up the call of this book fully just because there are so many.
The Queer Art of Failure by Jack Halberstam
4.0
I would love to read this again in a class. It has so many interesting ideas I don’t know if I understood all of them.
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
3.5
A lot of claims that weren’t super backed up but I appreciate the archive it creates
Palestine by Joe Sacco
4.5
This book gets real self referencing in a real depressing way towards the end. I think I wish there was more variation in the art, but I understand why that ultimately didn’t happen in this particular novel.
The Jewish War by Tova Reich
4.0
Intensely satirical but almost to a point where you sometimes can’t tell what she’s making fun of? Seems at times like this book becomes an interpretive dead end and one giant sex joke and other times that it’s making profound statements on fascism. Idk what to think
Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness by Melanie Yergeau
4.75
Probably one of my favorite disability studies books. I wish it were more accessible with the language they use, but the arguments are incredibly incisive