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delaneykleiner's review against another edition
Had to return to library bc it came from Colorado College collection. Also I can’t go back to back to back nonfiction despite my urges and hopes
lucasunshine's review against another edition
challenging
hopeful
informative
reflective
slow-paced
5.0
Expansive and groundbreaking book in the field of disability studies.
11corvus11's review against another edition
5.0
I rarely buy books brand new and this was one of them. I loved Exile and Pride so I couldn't wait to read this. It definitely did not disappoint. It is filled with many insights and poses even more questions- something I wish more folks would do. This book is empowering and unapologetic about disability in all of its forms. It includes many narratives from specific analyses of famous disability stories to personal stories of oppression and love to general statements on intersections of race, class, gender, sexuality, disability, species, class, and many other things that affect our "body-minds." Eli Clare gets it. And poses prompts for conversation when he's not sure. I'm so grateful for him and his work.
lizshayne's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
informative
reflective
slow-paced
5.0
This book was gorgeous and it was specifically Clare's approach to writing into complex situations where different experiences lead to different politics that made it so brilliant. His willingness to own both his own perspective and the way that it is jostled (his language) by being in community and longing for that jostling is so important. It's a model of what I want articulations of theory to be - an imbricated set of observations and experiences and values and people that build up to create the polity, not just a politics.
He's so good and so thoughtful and I want to read more things written with this level of compassion undergirded by values.
He's so good and so thoughtful and I want to read more things written with this level of compassion undergirded by values.