A review by nibs
Who Gets to Be Smart by Bri Lee

challenging informative

4.5

It's not what I expected. I expected something more focused on the education system, while this book offers a broader view of kierarchal structures of society. I appreciate Lee's style of writing: honest, vulnerable, infused with autobiographical elements even though this book is non-fiction, not memoir like Eggshell Skull. All of these concepts I understood parts of have been linked together and given clarity. There are also issues that I knew were bad (Ramsey Centre, disability discrimination) but I didn't realise how bad.

4.5 stars because of the limited brush over neurodivergent people. Their experiences are so related to education systems and ideas of intelligence, but there were less than 3 pages on this and sources were predominantly from those without lived experience. An oversight. 
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