Having recently had the opportunity to preview Alice Wong's upcoming "Disability Visibility," I enthusiastically claimed the opportunity to go back a couple years and check out a similar 2018 effort by Wong that also pushed disabled voices to the forefront. "Resistance and Hope: Essays by Disabled People" is really an expansion of Wong's acclaimed Disability Visibility Project, an anthology of essays written by some of the country's most celebrated and recognized activists, leaders, and social j...

very timely and comforting for what we are living *rn*. really appreciated the the reminder/calling in of what *really* matters and what doesn't.

The essays are primarily reflecting on the years after Trump was elected but are still very much true today

Loved most of itI really liked this book, with one exception : content notes are for sensitive topics that may impact trauma survivors or people with phobias. In a disabled writer anthology it baffles and upsets me that this was treated so badly! "Activist praxis" isn't a content note!

Too focused on Trump and mainstream politics; I was hoping for big leftist ideas and some of it was that, but not enough.

Now, like every essay anthology, not every essay was 5 stars, but enough of these hit me in the thoughts and emotions that it was overall a 5 star experience. The Neumeier, Mirov, and Valentine were especially memorable to me, and others were very viscerally good as well.

Resistance and Hope is a series of essays collected from the disability community, written to spur action, collective healing, and resistance. Each essay is short and sweet--not really calling for any specific actions but pushing forth broader ideas on what modern activism taken from learnings in the Disability Justice framework can look like. What I really appreciated about this book was that it truly demonstrated intersectional resistance and unabashedly called out existing ableist hierarchies...

2.5 stars, but rounding up because the collection introduces readers to the names of disability justice activists who are doing work that is important to know and support. But the actual experience of reading the anthology didn't feel that revelatory - maybe because I already follow some of the contributors on social media, the ideas here were already largely familiar to me.

These essays have a wide range in quality, and few of them offer concrete plans or suggestions for organizing and self-care. Overall, worth reading for the really excellent essays.

Read this now. So important for these voices to be heard and to challenge one's own thoughts, or find ways to become more involved. I love that the authors talk about challenges within different communities & explores ways to make those communities more supportive, supported, and accessible to all. I also value the dissonance in representing two different viewpoints, even coming from the same author. All of this was food for my soul that I wasn't even aware I needed until I read it. Currently, t...

I could not be more grateful that this book exists. Every essay meant more to me than I can say.

Reading these essays/reflections was a deeply moving experience for me as a feminist, a Latina, and a non-disabled person. I felt like I was having a long, late-night conversation with each author about topics that are both abstract and very personal at the same time: hope, despair, resistance, the limits and the potential of each of us as individuals and in community.The book is published by the Disability Visibility Project, rather than a conventional press, and in an e-book-only release (for

I've been a fan of Alice Wong ever since hearing her interview on Ana Marie Cox's podcast, so I was very excited to hear that she edited a new book about disabled experiences. "Resistance and Hope" consists of essays centered on navigating disability justice in the Trump era, with special attention to the experiences of queer and POC individuals. Some of the writers were familiar to me (Lydia Brown, Mia Mingus), and others were authors I didn't know before but really enjoyed (Stacey Milbern, for...

4.5*

Resistance and Hope: Essays by Disabled People, Edited by Alice Wong This is a publication by the Disability Visibility Project. You can find them on FB as well as Twitter. This is a compilation of 16 searing essays by multiply disabled people belonging to various marginalized communities - black, lgbtq+, muslim, jewish. The book is a poem that talks about hope, about how resistance gives hope, about who should resist, what resistance means to different people, about organizing as a means to res...

I went to high school with Alice Wong and I have been excited to see the work she's been doing for disability justice. This is an outstanding book of essays and an exemplar of showcasing people with complex intersectional identities. It probably is not a great introductory text to disability justice or to understanding intersectionality for those people who haven't encountered those concepts before but it is an excellent next step for people ready to step outside their silos. I was not familiar

[5 stars] A timely collection of essays by disabled people in the US, edited by the Disability Visibility Project's Alice Wong. Writers grapple with resistance and hope amidst a social and political climate of white supremacy, patriarchy, colonization, and ongoing ableism. I appreciated the essays that looked at the intersections of race, gender, and disability, especially "Rebel - Don't Be Palatable" by Lydia XZ Brown, "Barron Trump's (Alleged) Autistic Childhood" by Cyree Jarelle Johnson, "The...

It may be possible that in the near future I will run out of adjectives during my mini-reviews - but it is not this day!Written in 2017, these 16 essays cover a vast array of subjects within the disabled community: resistance, hope, self-care, intersectional disability rights and social justice. This was such an informative read. If you take nothing else away, remember that. If you happen to actually go out of your way to read this fabulous and necessary collection, please make sure you make it

"When world is shattering, we are the shards cutting to shape something new." (Naomi Ortiz)