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lightreads) wrote2022-08-10 03:26 pm
lightreads) wrote2022-08-10 03:26 pm
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Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman's Fight to End Ableism by Else Sjunneson
Being Seen
3/5. I read this what feels like a year ago, even though it’s only been about six weeks (life has been a lot, guys). So I don’t remember it as well as I’d like. It’s a loosely organized collection of essays discussing the many facets of ableism that can operate in a disabled person’s life, through an autobiographical lens. I keep picking up these books and then swearing off them because I am not at a place in my life when I need to be reading these anymore. This is a pretty good 101-201 level entry, with a lot of rage in its pages. She also enjoys some media criticism between the autobiography – you probably know her from twitter or various commentary outlets if you are scifi fandom adjacent – but her preferred subjects are horror and so not at all of interest to me. Marked down just because I keep forgetting to stop reading these ‘explain it to the ableds’ books.
Oh, the author does read the audiobook, which I know I am generally very down on, but she does it well.
Content notes: Oof, A lot of bad things have happened to her and people she loves, some of which I’m sure I have forgotten. Parental death, homophobia, bullying, ableism of all sorts, medical malpractice, miscarriage, emotional abuse.
3/5. I read this what feels like a year ago, even though it’s only been about six weeks (life has been a lot, guys). So I don’t remember it as well as I’d like. It’s a loosely organized collection of essays discussing the many facets of ableism that can operate in a disabled person’s life, through an autobiographical lens. I keep picking up these books and then swearing off them because I am not at a place in my life when I need to be reading these anymore. This is a pretty good 101-201 level entry, with a lot of rage in its pages. She also enjoys some media criticism between the autobiography – you probably know her from twitter or various commentary outlets if you are scifi fandom adjacent – but her preferred subjects are horror and so not at all of interest to me. Marked down just because I keep forgetting to stop reading these ‘explain it to the ableds’ books.
Oh, the author does read the audiobook, which I know I am generally very down on, but she does it well.
Content notes: Oof, A lot of bad things have happened to her and people she loves, some of which I’m sure I have forgotten. Parental death, homophobia, bullying, ableism of all sorts, medical malpractice, miscarriage, emotional abuse.