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Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire by Alice Wong

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3.5

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5.0

An absolutely wonderful collection of essays by disabled artists and writers on the intimacies they experience in their lives. There's such a range in both disabled experiences and examples of intimacy. It really had me reflecting on the ways intimacy occurs in my disabled life and created a longing for more community. Absolutely going to purchase a copy as soon as I can.

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3.5

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This is my first ever dnf collection from AW. I found many of the essays problematic for multiple reasons. I mentioned the issue with the animal essay already. There is a shallow identity politics woven throughout so many of these where people just repeat the same few labels over and over and over without engaging much more with them than that- as if the labels themselves are revolutionary and not what it means to exist within and outside them. There's one essay from someone- whose work I'm increasingly liking less and less- who is diagnosing her mom with her own self diagnosis and calling a straight woman a femme. I'm just not getting much out of it too balance out how annoyed I feel. I'm not sure if this makes me more conservative or less.