Review
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century
August 3, 2020 – by Nila Gupta
In time for the thirtieth anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, activist Alice Wong brings together a collection of personal essays by disabled people that celebrates and documents disability culture in the now. Review by Nila Gupta
Alice Wong
Trying to summarise a collection like Alice Wong’s Disability Visibility Is daunting. The scope of the collection is epic, there are a vast array of positions, impairments, and types of voice. I’m going to try instead to give you a flavour of what waits for you in this impressive series of personal accounts.
I often struggle with reading, so I’m going to follow a great suggestion from one of my Brown Q**** Crip fam. If you only have scope/access to read one thing, read Alice Wong’s introduction. It offers the reader an overview whilst providing a powerful manifesto for radical disability liberation – a theme that links this and Wong’s previous collection, ‘Resistance and Hope’.
“To me, disability is not a monolith, nor is it a clear-cut binary of disabled and nondisabled. Disability [...]