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A review by katsbooks
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century by Alice Wong
emotional
informative
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
"I know only that in chasing to achieve the person I once was, I will miss the person I have become.”
"Stories are the closest we can come to shared experience."
"The reality of disability and joy means accepting that not every day is good but every day has openings for small pockets of joy.”
As with any anthology, some pieces are stronger than others but I felt like I learned or appreciated something about each and every one of the stories/essays. I would highly recommend this for anyone. I feel like out of all of the -isms I try to educate myself about, ableism is one I haven't spent a lot of time interrogating in myself. There some pieces in this anthology that really challenged some biases I didn't even know I had.
The formatting of this anthology was also really good, I thought. The sections were Being, Becoming, Doing and Connecting. I liked that format and overarching theme for each section.
This is a must-read nonfiction for everyone!
"Stories are the closest we can come to shared experience."
"The reality of disability and joy means accepting that not every day is good but every day has openings for small pockets of joy.”
As with any anthology, some pieces are stronger than others but I felt like I learned or appreciated something about each and every one of the stories/essays. I would highly recommend this for anyone. I feel like out of all of the -isms I try to educate myself about, ableism is one I haven't spent a lot of time interrogating in myself. There some pieces in this anthology that really challenged some biases I didn't even know I had.
The formatting of this anthology was also really good, I thought. The sections were Being, Becoming, Doing and Connecting. I liked that format and overarching theme for each section.
This is a must-read nonfiction for everyone!