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

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

emotional informative relaxing medium-paced

5.0

everyone should read this incredible, eye-opening, and brilliant collection of essays by disabled authors.

my favorite essay was definitely ‘how to make a paper crane from rage’ by elsa sjunneson.

I am a disabled woman. I have learned to suppress, to fold, to disappear. When I fold down my rage, I fold down myself. I make myself smaller, prettier, easier to consume.

But I am not easy to consume … And I am angry at the world.

I am angry because I live in a world that does not see me as capable. I am angry because I live in a world where I am expected to keep up or sit down...

I am angry because this world? It wants me to sit back and let someone else take the wheel, and I've never been that kind of girl.

i, myself, am a disabled woman and i had never read something so powerful as that essay describing disabled rage. i had never read anything that had resonated with me as much as that moving writing.

this should definitely be one of those books, anthologies, that every reads at least once in their life. i can see myself returning to this book in the future. it was beautiful.

note to self, i guess? at first i listened to the audiobook and then realized that there were like 2 extra essays that were in the book that weren’t included in the audio for some reason so i switched to reading the book itself.

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

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