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Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

Alice Wong (Editor),

Harriet McBryde Johnson (Contributor)

Start date: September 27, 2022

Finish date: October 13, 2022

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Jul 17, 2023 Laura rated it it was amazing

Shelves: disability, favorites

I wrote over a page of notes in the back of this book, and maybe someday I’ll transcribe some of there here. Bottom line, though: everyone should read this book. Even if you already know a lot about and/or have a disability, there will be at least one perspective here that you’re unfamiliar with. I’m chronically ill, (physically) disabled, and neurodivergent, so I def found something to relate to in every essay (understatement, whew), but I also learned a lot and was given so much to think about ...more

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Apr 07, 2022 Lilly rated it really liked it

Essays I want to remember:
-Unspeakable Conversations by Harriet McBryde Johnson
-The Isolation of Being Deaf in Prison by Jeremy Woody
-Nuturing Black Disabled Joy by Keah Brown
-Six Ways of Looking at Crip Time by Ellen Samuels
-Lost Cause by Reyma McCoy McDeid (dsm!)
-On NYC's Paratransit, Fighting for Safety, Respect, and Human Dignity by Britney Wilson
-Gaining Power Through Communication by Lateef McLeod
-The Fearless Benjamin Lay: Activist, Abolitionist, Dwarf Person by Eugene Grant
-Disability ...more

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Oct 10, 2021 Danielle rated it really liked it

Shelves: nonfiction, social-justice, audiobooks-read, anthologies, girl-squad-book-club

"'I don’t understand it,' I continued. 'These things, they just keep happening, and I know it has to mean something. It has to. I want my suffering to mean something. I want this pain to matter.'"

Disability Visibility is a fantastic anthology featuring a collection of stories and essays about what it is like to live a disabled life in a modern world. As with all anthologies, some of the stories stood out more than others to me, but what made this anthology different for me is that with this coll ...more

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