Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman's Fight to End Ableism by Elsa Sjunneson

Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman's Fight to End Ableism

Elsa Sjunneson

256 pages first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction biography lgbtqia+ memoir emotional funny reflective medium-paced

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A deafblind writer and professor explores how the misrepresentation of disability in books, movies, and TV harms both the disabled community and everyone else.As a deafblind woman with partial vision in one eye and bilateral hearing aids, Elsa Sju...

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informative 88%
reflective 67%
challenging 53%
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funny 44%
inspiring 13%
hopeful 9%
adventurous 2%
dark 2%

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slow 2%

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