Disability Visibility

First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century

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Disability Visibility (2020, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group)

240 pages

English language

Published Dec. 27, 2020 by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

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5 stars (4 reviews)

3 editions

a medicine of sorts

4 stars

I listened to this book as an audio book. I have been interested in Alice Wong's works for a long time, though you don't hear too much from them personally in the book. For some stories, I wasn't sure why I was listening. Some authors I was familiar with and were going over topics or summaries of their work I'd already read. It didn't help that the narrator made it very hard to tell stories apart and some things were just blending together. As Pretense mentioned in their review: I did not find the different sections meaningful. At other points, the things that I was listening felt very pertinent to where I'm sitting in my life, really struck me. I think different parts of this book can be very meaningful for different people to find healing and feel perceived by someone who shares their experiences. The book has caused me …

must read collection of essays on disability by disabled folks

5 stars

a wide-ranging collection of essays from disabled folks about their lives, experience with disability and ableism, and activism. there's variety in the experiences, identities, and topics represented, and I felt the collection is well-edited (notable, because anthologies are hard!). gave me a lot to think about and reflect on. I think this is a great introduction to disability justice, and there's also a bunch of resources in the back for further reading, viewing, listening. looking forward to digging into them.

Subjects

  • People with disabilities, biography
  • Sociology of disability