brittanybarnard's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
4.5
hockeymonday's review
5.0
This was so enlightening to read and should honestly be a required reading. I'm so glad that I came across this book.
mellambert's review
challenging
emotional
informative
fast-paced
5.0
I really think anyone in the healthcare field should find this required reading, or anyone who works with the public...or anyone. Just anyone. It really put ableist thoughts on blast, or things maybe I've said in the past without thinking.
lowlow's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
funny
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
leelulah's review
1.0
27. A book about a social justice issue
This book has some interesting essays, for example, those about transportation and accesibility in the city and then the hardships of being disabled in prison, the struggle of having been instutionalized most of your life based on IQ, despite not needing to, not even knowing your own siblings there, incontinence caused by lipomyelomeningocele spina bifida (even as I rolled my eyes at 'people assigned female at birth).... you know, the "unpretty" parts of disability people don't like to mess with their "inspiration porn" of "life isn't hard, look at this person without an arm surfing, you loser!".
There was also a debate about euthanasia with none other than Peter Singer, who would rather put pigs above persons with disabilities....
It has a diverse group of authors and, therefore, diverse range of experiences of disability. Of course it's not meant to show every single disabled person's experience as the same or in agreement.
But it also has a woman being offended at people saying they will pray for her too much trans pandering, like talking about binding, which is detrimental enough without a physical disability, but it seems we're back to corsetry, then it also has sex industry pandering (a whole essay on masturbating being a liberating act for someone who identifies as asexual anyway), not enough on parenting from a disabled mother's perspective, and...
"The Antiabortion Bill You Aren't Hearing About" by Rebecca Cokley which opens with the paragraph:
"As the country has anxiously watched extreme and dangerous antiabortion bills pop up in Alabama, Georgia, and Ohio, another threat has received far less attention. Earlier this month, the Texas senate passed SB 1033, which would remove the exemption allowing abortion after twenty weeks of pregnancy [5 months] eeeof pregnancy when there is 'severe fetal abnormality'. And it prohibits what the antichoice lawmakers call 'discriminatory abortion'. That means when a person [woman?] receives information that the fetus [or baby, if you prefer] they are carrying has a genetic condition - such as Down's Syndrome, cystic fibrosis, dwarfism or other mutations- they could not seek an abortion on the grounds of that diagnosis. While being framed as 'saving those poor defenseless disabled babies', the reality is that this is just one more assault on people's [women's?] bodies.
Uhh, you know that makes you look like a Nazi who vaguely defines severe fetal abnormality and that in some countries this includes cleft palate, which is nowhere near as 'bad' as any of these? Did you realize you were writing this essay for a book on disabilities and your best idea is to allow society to discard us while also erasing women? Wow.
Throughout all the article she talks about women as 'persons' while specifying women-only experiences such as pregnancy: "[D]isabled people [women] need abortions, too". Hitler would be proud.
Weird that she can decry sterilization and see some faults on the pro-choice movement but still advocate for abortion on the grounds that some disabled people are more justifierd on hating their existence but also that pro-choicers aren't right in saying that all disability is a sign of disgrace, just make up your mind, will you?
She also links having children to never getting out of poverty. So, if you just kill those disabled babies, you'll have a better life! Made me sick.
Also, the laziness of transcribing a fragment of a TED Talk... boy, it's like at many points, Wong hasn't even tried.
Seriously, what a disappointment.
This book has some interesting essays, for example, those about transportation and accesibility in the city and then the hardships of being disabled in prison, the struggle of having been instutionalized most of your life based on IQ, despite not needing to, not even knowing your own siblings there, incontinence caused by lipomyelomeningocele spina bifida (even as I rolled my eyes at 'people assigned female at birth).... you know, the "unpretty" parts of disability people don't like to mess with their "inspiration porn" of "life isn't hard, look at this person without an arm surfing, you loser!".
There was also a debate about euthanasia with none other than Peter Singer, who would rather put pigs above persons with disabilities....
It has a diverse group of authors and, therefore, diverse range of experiences of disability. Of course it's not meant to show every single disabled person's experience as the same or in agreement.
But it also has a woman being offended at people saying they will pray for her too much trans pandering, like talking about binding, which is detrimental enough without a physical disability, but it seems we're back to corsetry, then it also has sex industry pandering (a whole essay on masturbating being a liberating act for someone who identifies as asexual anyway), not enough on parenting from a disabled mother's perspective, and...
"The Antiabortion Bill You Aren't Hearing About" by Rebecca Cokley which opens with the paragraph:
"As the country has anxiously watched extreme and dangerous antiabortion bills pop up in Alabama, Georgia, and Ohio, another threat has received far less attention. Earlier this month, the Texas senate passed SB 1033, which would remove the exemption allowing abortion after twenty weeks of pregnancy [5 months] eeeof pregnancy when there is 'severe fetal abnormality'. And it prohibits what the antichoice lawmakers call 'discriminatory abortion'. That means when a person [woman?] receives information that the fetus [or baby, if you prefer] they are carrying has a genetic condition - such as Down's Syndrome, cystic fibrosis, dwarfism or other mutations- they could not seek an abortion on the grounds of that diagnosis. While being framed as 'saving those poor defenseless disabled babies', the reality is that this is just one more assault on people's [women's?] bodies.
Uhh, you know that makes you look like a Nazi who vaguely defines severe fetal abnormality and that in some countries this includes cleft palate, which is nowhere near as 'bad' as any of these? Did you realize you were writing this essay for a book on disabilities and your best idea is to allow society to discard us while also erasing women? Wow.
Throughout all the article she talks about women as 'persons' while specifying women-only experiences such as pregnancy: "[D]isabled people [women] need abortions, too". Hitler would be proud.
Weird that she can decry sterilization and see some faults on the pro-choice movement but still advocate for abortion on the grounds that some disabled people are more justifierd on hating their existence but also that pro-choicers aren't right in saying that all disability is a sign of disgrace, just make up your mind, will you?
She also links having children to never getting out of poverty. So, if you just kill those disabled babies, you'll have a better life! Made me sick.
Also, the laziness of transcribing a fragment of a TED Talk... boy, it's like at many points, Wong hasn't even tried.
Seriously, what a disappointment.