Reviews tagging 'Police brutality'

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories From the Twenty-first Century by Alice Wong

20 reviews

kerrygetsliterary's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Racism, Rape, Acephobia/Arophobia, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Police brutality, Sexism, Confinement, Ableism, Body shaming, Bullying, Chronic illness, Medical content, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

Moderate: Abortion

ageckocalledachilles's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

Everyone should read this. It covers a multitude of disability rights issues as well as being incredibly intersectional. Some sections discuss very difficult/triggering issues, but many of these come with content warnings 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Grief, Homophobia, Murder, Racial slurs, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Forced institutionalization, Hate crime, Medical content, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Acephobia/Arophobia, Medical trauma, Excrement, Emotional abuse, Transphobia, Violence, Chronic illness, Colonisation, Death, Death of parent, and Sexism

Moderate: Genocide, Pregnancy, Religious bigotry, and Abandonment

Minor: Miscarriage

elizabethkore's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

A book that should be a modern primer for disability studies and narrative. Covers a variety of topics, centering and advocating for disability narratives. Authors highlighted are from a variety of backgrounds, with physical and/or mental disabilities, and predominately QTPOC identities.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Abandonment, Terminal illness, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Sexual assault, Self harm, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Rape, Racism, Misogyny, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Medical trauma, Medical content, Islamophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Homophobia, Hate crime, Grief, Genocide, Gaslighting, Forced institutionalization, Emotional abuse, Dysphoria, Domestic abuse, Death, Chronic illness, Body shaming, Cancer, and Bullying

Moderate: Transphobia, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Stalking, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racial slurs, and Racism

Minor: Vomit

spiritedfaraway's review

challenging emotional informative medium-paced

5.0

Stories are the closest we can come to shared experience… Like all stories, they are most fundamentally a chance to ride around inside another head and be reminded that being who we are and where we are, and doing what we’re doing, is not the only possibility.

       – Harriet McBryde Johnson 

Everyone should read this.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Racism, Chronic illness, Medical trauma, Emotional abuse, Bullying, Body shaming, Forced institutionalization, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Sexual assault, and Violence

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Toxic relationship, Racial slurs, Panic attacks/disorders, Colonisation, Abandonment, Grief, Police brutality, Transphobia, Terminal illness, Sexism, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Abortion, Domestic abuse, and Fatphobia

Minor: Slavery

leahlovesloslibros's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

I really enjoyed hearing about a variety of disabilities, specifically first-person accounts. There were some disabilities in this book that I hadn't even considered, which is why books like this are so important: so individuals can become more educated and aware. This book should be required reading in school.

A pleasant surprise while reading this book is that I found some validation of my own. I have spent years dealing with impostor syndrome surrounding some of my own disabilities, especially since they are not considered disabilities by all individuals. This book really helped me realize that my disabilities are not only real, but valid. I want to help bring more awareness to both visible and invisible disabilities. We [individuals with disabilities] deserve that.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism

Moderate: Cursing, Colonisation, Genocide, Racism, Sexism, Sexual assault, Violence, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Racial slurs, Alcoholism, Cancer, Misogyny, Rape, Forced institutionalization, Body shaming, Death of parent, Abortion, Bullying, Torture, Self harm, Police brutality, Murder, and Domestic abuse

Additional CW/TW: erasure, incarceration, intersectionality, child neglect, poison, natural disasters Rep: AAPI, BIPOC, disabled, trans, nonbinary, ace

foreverinastory's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective

5.0

Everyone should read this. That is all.

CWs from each story as provided by the contributor:

Unspeakable Conversations: eugenics, infanticide, assisted suicide.

There's a Mathematical Equation that Proves I'm Ugly: bullying, suicidal ideation.

The Erasure of Indigenous People in Chronic Illness: settler colonialism, genocide, racism, sexism, ableism, erasure, sexual assault, violence, suicide, suicidal ideation.

The Isolation of Being Deaf in Prison: sexual assault, language deprivation, isolation, incarceration, trauma, audism.

Common Cyborg: hate, misogyny, harassment, rape threats, death threats, racism, suicide, sterilization, ableism, eugenics. 

We Can't Go Back: institutionalization, abuse.

Last but Not Least: body shaming, groping, sexual harassment.

The Antiabortion Bill You Aren't Hearing About: bodily autonomy, eugenics, ableism, trauma, sexual assault, medical trauma, objectification, carceral state, sterilization.

Incontinence is a Public Health Issue...: suicidal ideation, bullying, body shaming, infantilization. 

Failing/Burning: suffering, medication, spoilers for Hannah Gadsby's Nanette.

Lost Cause: abuse, racism, ableist language, child neglect, torture, poisoning, self-harm.

Disability Solidarity: state violence, anti-Blackness, racism, ableism, audism, police brutality, incarceration, murder, white supremacy. 

Time's Up for Me, Too: sexual assault, intimate partner violence, abuse, trauma. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Abortion, Acephobia/Arophobia, Blood, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Colonisation, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Grief, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Murder, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Violence

pollyhall's review against another edition

challenging informative sad tense slow-paced

2.0

 
This was a very slow read, I had to look up a lot of words. I would have liked to see fewer essays but with more depth. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Ableism, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Car accident, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Fatphobia, Forced institutionalization, Gun violence, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Lesbophobia, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Racism, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Terminal illness, Transphobia, and Violence

clarabooksit's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective fast-paced

4.75

An incredible essay collection. This is a must-read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Acephobia/Arophobia, Body shaming, Bullying, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Forced institutionalization, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Misogyny, Police brutality, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Transphobia

Moderate: Abortion, Miscarriage, and Sexual content

I really appreciated that nearly every essay in this collection begins with content warnings, so the reader knows what they’re about to read.

biacedbooks's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

Very informative about living with a disability. I like that it was intersectional and talked about being queer, trans, BIPOC, etc., and how that relates to disability.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Rape, Racism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Transphobia, and Violence

leighannebfd3b's review

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Abortion, Body shaming, Bullying, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Fatphobia, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Homophobia, Infertility, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racism, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, and Transphobia