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A review by pangnaolin
Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire by Alice Wong
adventurous
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.5
This was such a beautiful collection of work. I genuinely appreciated every essay so much, and some of them taught or reminded me of things I really needed to hear, too. I thought the way Wong organized the essays (& poems!) was really interesting, because I honestly felt like there was a lot of overlap between the ideas of sex & intimacy and connection and creativity, and it felt like they blended so much that I wondered if the 'parts' were even necessary.
Listening to the audiobook, it was hard to really enjoy the poems-- I wish I could've seen them on the page and sat with them longer-- but they were still a cool & interesting inclusion. Hearing all of the different perspectives on intimacy while Disabled was just so incredible, and I felt like every single one was right in its own way.
I don't have too much else to say, especially because it was a collection of essays and harder to comment on as a whole, but I really did love getting to listen to and absorb what all of these incredible, thoughtful people had to say about their experiences. I really would recommend reading Disability Intimacy-- especially if you're Disabled, but even if you're not.
Listening to the audiobook, it was hard to really enjoy the poems-- I wish I could've seen them on the page and sat with them longer-- but they were still a cool & interesting inclusion. Hearing all of the different perspectives on intimacy while Disabled was just so incredible, and I felt like every single one was right in its own way.
I don't have too much else to say, especially because it was a collection of essays and harder to comment on as a whole, but I really did love getting to listen to and absorb what all of these incredible, thoughtful people had to say about their experiences. I really would recommend reading Disability Intimacy-- especially if you're Disabled, but even if you're not.