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Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
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Lindsay
Oct 11, 2021 rated it liked it
This was not as great as I was expecting. I liked the second half more than the first half.
Hulttio
Apr 27, 2022 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
‘Taking up space as a disabled person is always revolutionary. To have a name is to be given the right to occupy space, but people like me don’t move easily through our society, and more often than not survive along its outermost edges.’ – Sandy Ho


Read for a book club in April. An anthology of essays, this provides much needed space for disability justice and voices to be heard. Many were quite moving, and others less so, but each one provides a particular look into disability. I learned and eng
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Melanie
Jul 09, 2022 rated it it was amazing
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