This is a fantastic collection of essays focusing on many issues surrounding people living with disabilities. Considering a large percentage of the population has one or more disabilities, it is disappointing that collections like this are not published more. Alice Wong brings together a mix of essays about physical and invisible disabilities, and just as the community is broad, this collection tackles many issues in formats such as blog posts, eulogies, and speeches. They touch on difficulties such as finding clothing, accessibility to public transportation, and violence. Also appreciated was the highlighting of BIPOC and queer individuals with disability.

Thank you to Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group and NetGalley for providing me this copy for reading and review.

This book is a compilation of essays by people with disabilities. It gives insight to the individual uniqueness of each person with disabilities and how their life is impacted in small ways as well as large ways because of their disability. As someone who loves reading about disabilities in both nonfiction and fictional settings, I throughly appreciated the diverse representation included in this book. While I did not agree with everything politically or spiritually mentioned throughout this book, I could at least discover what it's like for others to live with their disabilities and understand a bit more about who they are and how they're having meaningful, impactful lives in spite of and because of their disability.

This was such an important read. I appreciated the perspectives of people with lots of different experiences and disabilities. Able-bodied people (myself included) can often be very limited in our understanding of disability, accommodations, assistive devices, etc, and discussion of disability is often dominated by able-bodied people. So glad to have read diverse perspectives from people with disabilities.

What a wonderful book about the strength and vulnerability of the human spirit! This book was compiled of essays written by disabled people and it was a true eye-opener into what their worlds are like. I loved how so many of the writers mentioned that people think they don't enjoy life or should want cures, but that is not exactly how they feel about themselves or their lives. Many of the stories were uplifting to me and this book genuinely touched my heart.

Excellent book that I highly recommend. Gives you new insights and perspectives from voices that you don't typically think of or hear from in the disabled community.

Thank you @netgalley and Penguin Vintage Books for this ARC of @disability_visibility. What a fantastic anthology! As a person with a chronic illness I am so grateful to this collection of authors. The experiences that these authors recount are, by turn, heart wrenching, relatable, funny, educational and most importantly, deeply human. I was exposed to people whose lives are being lived in the shadows and I was confronted with my own ableism in spite of being disabled myself. We have so far to go towards equality for people with disabilities. I commit to doing the work necessary to amplify the voices of people with disabilities.

This is the book I wish existed when I was first diagnosed with my first (of many) chronic illnesses and became disabled. I have struggled over the years accepting my disabled identity and reading the stories of these amazing, diverse, and kickass disabled folx made me so proud to be a part of the disability community. Everyone needs a copy of this book on their shelves!!

This collection of deeply personal stories is a must read. I was drawn to this book because someone in my immediate family is disabled, and I really wanted an opportunity to learn more about the different aspects of being disabled through own voice, and maybe read the thoughts that aren't shared so freely. Because some things we rarely share openly, and sometimes those are the things that need the most attention..

This book was so informational and revealing to the ways that intersectionalism impacts the disabled community. Everyone needs to read this book. We must know how to better amplify the voices that need to be heard. Additionally, able-bodied people need to be aware of the ways ableism is so dominant in our culture. We need to take more notice. Inclusion matters on all aspects, and this is one that needs more attention.

So many essays in this collection stuck out to me. I am so thankful for the honesty and the vulnerability of the contributors being willing to share.

There were some stories that I skipped over due to the trigger warnings - and I am so incredibly thankful to the author for including that. It was extremely thoughtful.

I was given an eARC of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

I loved the introduction so much that I had to stop reading my Kindle ARC and order a paperback copy so I could mark it up. So naturally, the book was sold out everywhere and I had to wait for my bookstore to get more copies, but this book was well worth the wait. Each essay has content notes listed at the beginning, so while some essays may be difficult to read for some folks, I would recommend the book overall since you could easily skip over those essays. As a chronically ill person, this type of representation was incredible and much-needed. I will be recommending this book for a very long time.

An informative, well-conceived, thoughtful collection of essays. A must-read!
Though I have read academic essays on disability and bodies, this collection really highlighted some closer to life aspects of disability, which I really appreciated.

Thanks to the publisher and Net Galley for the copy.

I'm a 25-year-old disabled Chronically ill woman living with Chronic Pain, and Lyme disease.
Going into this book I knew it was going to be a bit of a heavy and emotional topic, and with it being a collection of essays I expected to maybe dislike a few of the essays. However, that was not the case.

I ended up loving all the essays I read. They all gave me so many emotions, from anger to sadness, bewilderment, happiness, empathy, and understanding.

This is not your typical essay collection.
The voices in this collection are incredibly diverse- Black voices, Latino voices, Asian voices, Native voices, Muslim voices, LGBTQIA+ voices- and every single one of them live with a disability or Chronic Illness that has impacted their lives.
With this diverse set of voices, we see how disability is different for different people, both personally and culturally.

I don't think I can even find all the words to express just how amazing this collection of essays is, how impactful, and how widely read this book needs to be.

So often disabled voices are forgotten, dismissed, and talked over. We're not even the second thought or the last thought when diversity is discussed- for too long we have been left out and pushed to the side for people to gawk at. NO MORE.

If you think you read diversely, then think again- you are not diverse if you are excluding the voices of Disabled people. Read this and educate yourself. Then you will see why we still have a lot of work to do, society needs to catch the hell up and stop ignoring our voices and our rights.

5 stars- hell, a hundred stars.
This has been one of the most impactful books I’ve ever read.
I will 100% be getting myself a copy, and I will never shut up about this book.

** ARC provided by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review

This book is so excellent. Summarizing it is going to be hard because these essays are all so different. This is definitely one of my favorite reads of the year, and possibly my life.

Disability Visibility is the first book that I've ever read that has been so focused on disability and the way that it lives in the lives of the authors. This collection of essays takes the reader into the world of disability, into areas that abled people typically fail to think about such as how difficult it is to find fashionable clothing for a trans disabled person or what it is like to be deaf in prison,.

This book emphasizes the importance of listening to the experience of disabled people, while also highlighting the need for more disabled writers to be published. This is a crucial book for classroom and school libraries.

For those who want to read the book, if you are at all like me, I would suggest reading the physical book rather than ebook. In a book of essays I prefer to skip around and use the table of contents to guide my reading, but in reading this on a kindle, I had to read straight through.

This collection is the most intersectional essay collection I have ever read. Writers from a wide range of disability, race, religion, and gender and sexual orientation shared their experiences with no holds barred. The openness of these writers was truly special and lovely to read. The essays were honest and raw, but hopeful and full of joy. This is the best essay collection I’ve ever read and I would recommend it to every single person. This is the book you should read.

Thank you to Knopf Doubleday and NetGalley for access to this e-ARC.

Great collection of essays, by writers who have conditions Ranging fro, blindness to Crouzon Syndrome, to fibromyalgia. Disability ranges in scope and effect, and it is readily apparent that how a particular condition affects one individual can be very different in someone else.
Also complicating things is the intersectionality of disability, gender, sexuality, and race. Being a white female with autism is worlds different from being a Black male with autism, for example, particularly when it comes to interactions with law enforcement. Gay disabled people have different experiences and social barriers than straight disabled people. That's something that society at large, and (professional) suppôt systems especially need to grapple with, sooner rather than later. It is not discussed much, and it needs to be recognized and addressed if an individual decides it should be.

There were many thorny concepts to consider, and some essays were difficult to read, but ultimately, I found it to be a hopeful collection. It should be read widely.

Education and inspiring. A hugely important read from brilliant voices. An essential call for activism.

Sometimes reading is a joyful experience. Sometimes it's deeply uncomfortable. And sometimes, like this book, it's both. The essays in Disability Visibility cover the experiences, lives, rages, desires, logic, and inherent personhood of the varied contributors, all of whose lives include the fact of their disabilities. At times reading this book made me deeply uncomfortable, mostly because of the ingrained and unquestioned assumptions, misconceptions, and often negative emotional reactions that I have toward disabilities. And even worse, it highlights the fact that in my life (so far and for now) I have had the luxury of not having to worry about, advocate for, or even understand how disability, and particularly being disabled in our society, has on all aspects of life. Eye opening and well worth a read.

What an anthology!! The range of perspectives and life experiences included in this collection of essays, and reviews I’ve seen from own voices readers commenting now seen they feel by this collection, is a testament to the wonderful work of Alice Wong in putting this together.

There are some powerful authors in this collection. Wong is the founder of The Disability Visibility Project. In this time when so many with disabilities find it even harder to get help readers will get a variety of essays exposing inequalities. There’s an essay about the inequality of health care for native people. There’s another very eye-opening about how patients are vulnerable in the hospital in which the author works. Things like finding adaptive clothe, and the high rats of disability among LGBTQ people. This isn’t the book with the answers, this is the book that should start discussion about the inequalities and how people with disabilities should expect more and deserve more.

I’m not a big essay reader, so I expected to do some skimming through this volume, but I didn’t skip at all. It’s expertly curated, with each voice so distinct from the last it reads like a series of little splashes of water to the face.

As a neurodivergent and chronically ill writer and librarian, I consider myself fairly well versed in disability topics. But the thing about disability is, it’s different for everyone. Every individuals lived bodily experience, and their social and cultural experience of disability, provides a unique perspective. The curation of this collection by editor Alice Wong is absolutely spot on, and it is a necessary read.