Review by kateyhb - Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century

A review by kateyhb
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century by Alice Wong

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective fast-paced

4.5

I appreciate that this book is an accumulation of first hand accounts. It is full of both everyday and extraordinary wins and losses told directly from the ones experiencing them. Not every chapter had to contain some “call to action” for able-bodied readers-- stories from disabled folks deserve to be heard simply because we value them and their experiences as human beings. It is so important to acknowledge and appreciate the multitude of wisdom and value disabled folks bring to the table, while also rejecting the capitalist idea that we are only as valuable as the goods we can provide.

This book helped me consider multiple new struggles faced by disabled folks, and helped me to examine what my role should look like as a co-conspirator fighting against our systemically ableist society. There is so much diversity in the disabled community, and they really don’t need more one-size-fits-all solutions created by well-intentioned able bodied folks. We need to stop and listen.

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A review by kateyhb Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century by Alice Wong

A review by kateyhb
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century by Alice Wong