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zinnia91's review against another edition
informative
fast-paced
3.5
The author is a Christian woman within the church, which is not a criticism as much as a heads up for disabled folks who are no longer in the church and might not enjoy that POV or find it triggering.
I do wish the author had directed some of her attention to those folks - disabled folks who have left their faith communities because of the ableism, misogyny, racism, classism, and homophobia they’ve endured.
This book is a quick read, and the author does a great job illustrating her points. It could be a great intro to disability justice if she did any credit to the literal first pillar of Disability Justice, intersectionality.
I wish the author had spent significantly more time talking about ALL disabled people, including and especially non-white folks. Especially because Disability Justice was founded by Black and brown queer trans folks.
She does cite some of those activists and founders in her work, in footnotes, but generally when I read Disability Justice literature it reads as a love letter to the communities that have informed it. There is a collective aspect to Disability Justice that is inherent, and I felt that here it was absent.
That being said, if someone new to this conversation and within the church read this book, I would think it is an approximation in the right direction.
I do wish the author had directed some of her attention to those folks - disabled folks who have left their faith communities because of the ableism, misogyny, racism, classism, and homophobia they’ve endured.
This book is a quick read, and the author does a great job illustrating her points. It could be a great intro to disability justice if she did any credit to the literal first pillar of Disability Justice, intersectionality.
I wish the author had spent significantly more time talking about ALL disabled people, including and especially non-white folks. Especially because Disability Justice was founded by Black and brown queer trans folks.
She does cite some of those activists and founders in her work, in footnotes, but generally when I read Disability Justice literature it reads as a love letter to the communities that have informed it. There is a collective aspect to Disability Justice that is inherent, and I felt that here it was absent.
That being said, if someone new to this conversation and within the church read this book, I would think it is an approximation in the right direction.
s_sheppard18's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
4.0
paganh2ogoddess's review against another edition
emotional
funny
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
blythe_w's review
5.0
I needed this book, and the church does, too. Amy invites readers into compassion, justice, and the way of Jesus in a beautiful and bold way.
anna_pearl's review against another edition
informative
medium-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Ableism
jessehersh's review
4.0
If I were talking with someone totally new to this conversation, this is the book I would recommend. Kenny is confident and honest and does not make room for the defensiveness of non-disabled people (a positive in my opinion). But as a disabled seminarian, this left me wanting more. I know the facts, the things she wants to be shocking just didn’t surprise me because they’re my experiences too (Damn you, Prayerful Perpetrators!!).