Reviews tagging 'Sexual violence'
Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space by Amanda Leduc
3 reviews
overbooked207's review
dark
emotional
hopeful
informative
reflective
fast-paced
5.0
π Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space by Amanda Leduc Book Review π
9th and last book of January 2023 and 9th of the year:
βI have nothing to prove to the world because the world has everything to prove to me. It is the world's responsibility to make space for my body, my words, my lopsided gait - our bodies, our words, our ways of moving through the world - to hold my childhood dreams of being a princess and a superhero close and help me understand that there is no need to want to be either. To start telling different stories about a body that might just look like mine, and reshaping the world to fit them. I am already enough. There is no need to be more.β - Amanda Leduc.
Discussing the portrayals of disability in fairy tales throughout history and how those representations influenced the people and world around them, this nonfiction book was informative and is one I definitely recommend! I also highly recommend picking up more books like this afterward to continue learning such as Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century edited by Alice Wong! TWs for ableism, abuse, body horror, bullying, cancer, chronic illness, depression, gun violence, incest, medical content, mental illness, rape, and suicidal thoughtsππΉπ‘π§π¨βπ¦½π¦»
Graphic: Cancer, Body horror, Physical abuse, Ableism, Terminal illness, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual violence, Violence, Body shaming, Medical trauma, Medical content, Bullying, Chronic illness, and Emotional abuse
toffishay's review
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
4.75
What a powerful, emotional, informative, and interesting read. I was challenged to look at fairy tales and the stories that we tell ourselves in a new light. This book is part memoir in a way, which I was not expecting, but added so much. The style of writing is also fantastic and reads whimsical, almost like a fairy tale itself.
Graphic: Ableism and Bullying
Moderate: Rape, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Body horror, Body shaming, and Sexual violence
ktrecs's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
informative
reflective
slow-paced
2.75
A good primer on disability justice and the power of storytelling, but ultimately too disorganised and disjointed to do anything new or interesting.Β
Graphic: Ableism
Moderate: Bullying, Body shaming, Mental illness, and Chronic illness
Minor: Blood, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Medical content, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence
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