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

July 3, 2025 by vega-table Leave a Comment

Why did I read Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the 21st Century from Alice Wong and dozens others? I urgently needed to borrow a book from a friend for specific and convoluted reasons. And the Storygraph’s Genre Challenge includes “an essay collection by a disabled author.” Finally, as a person who digs fashion and human rights, I was (and am) a fan of well dressed activist Alice Wong. Essentially, I had no reason not to read it.   The book is split into four groups […]

Filed Under: Featured, Non-Fiction Tagged With: alice wong, Disability

vega-table's CBR17 Review No:5 · Genres: Featured, Non-Fiction · Tags: alice wong, Disability ·
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An excellent anthology of disabled authors from a variety of perspectives.

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the 21st Century by ed. Alice Wong

June 8, 2021 by narfna Leave a Comment

This was a solid collection of essays from voices rarely heard in publishing, or elsewhere. Ableism is baked into our culture. I read this for Read Harder this year, and this is why I like participating in that challenge every year, because there are always a couple books I probably would never have read otherwise, and this is one of those. Like most essay collections, there are essays that are stronger than others. The standouts for me were the very first essay by Harriet McBryde […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: alice wong, Anthology, Disability, disability visibility, ed. Alice Wong, essay collection, non fiction, read harder challenge 2021

narfna's CBR13 Review No:54 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: alice wong, Anthology, Disability, disability visibility, ed. Alice Wong, essay collection, non fiction, read harder challenge 2021 ·
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