Disability Intimacy, Alice Wong
Disability Intimacy, Alice Wong
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Disability Intimacy
Essays on Love, Care, and Desire

Author: Alice Wong

Narrator: Full Cast

Unabridged: 11 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/30/2024


Synopsis

The much-anticipated follow up to the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility: another revolutionary collection of first-person writing on the joys and challenges of the modern disability experience, and intimacy in all its myriad forms.

What is intimacy? More than sex, more than romantic love, the pieces in this stunning and illuminating new anthology offer broader and more inclusive definitions of what it can mean to be intimate with another person. Explorations of caregiving, community, access, and friendship offer us alternative ways of thinking about the connections we form with others—a vital reimagining in an era when forced physical distance is at times a necessary norm. 

But don't worry: there's still sex to consider—and the numerous ways sexual liberation intersects with disability justice. Plunge between these pages and you'll also find disabled sexual discovery, disabled love stories, and disabled joy. These twenty-five stunning original pieces—plus other modern classics on the subject, all carefully curated by acclaimed activist Alice Wong—include essays, poetry, drama, and erotica: a full spectrum of the dreams, fantasies, and deeply personal realities of a wide range of beautiful bodies and minds. Disability Intimacy will free your thinking, invigorate your spirit, and delight your desires.

About The Author

Alice Wong is a disabled activist, media maker, and research consultant based in San Francisco, California. She is the author of a bestselling memoir, Year of the Tiger; the founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project—an online community dedicated to creating, sharing, and amplifying disability media and culture; and the editor of the anthology Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century and Disability Visibility: 17 First-Person Stories for Today (Adapted for Young Adults). Alice is also the host and coproducer of the Disability Visibility podcast and copartner in a number of collaborations such as #CripTheVote and Access Is Love. From 2013 to 2015, Alice served as a member of the National Council on Disability, an appointment by President Barack Obama. Alice is a 2024 Macarthur Fellow.


Reviews

Goodreads review by emma on July 24, 2024

i'm an alice wong stan. and unsurprisingly, this was wonderful! like every collection, it had its stronger moments and its weaker ones, but this was a really striking and enlightening book. bottom line: should probably be required reading. (thanks to the publisher for the e-arc)......more

Goodreads review by Mai on July 26, 2024

Disability Pride Month I don't know why it took me so long to pick up this book. It was both informative and heartwarming. Disability isn't a monolith. The intersectionality between disability (and the differences within this), queerness, and people of color was handled with nuance. While the essays......more

Goodreads review by Richard on December 20, 2023

With "Disability Visibility," Alice Wong shook us all up with her remarkably constructed collective of writers sharing with refreshing openness and honesty the contemporary disability experience. As a follow-up to "Disability Visibility," Wong is back with "Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care,......more

Goodreads review by Kendra on January 03, 2024

I always want to like disability activist Alice Wong's edited collections more than I actually do. The idea here--an anthology of writings on disabled intimacy, in its many varied forms--is brilliant and needed, but many of the essays included didn't do much to help me learn more about the ways the......more

Goodreads review by Panda on July 19, 2024

Audiobook (11 hours) narrated by a full cast, including: Jenna Bainbridge Frank Bishop Anna Caputo Danielle Morsberger Risa Mei Andy Garcia Stephanie Gould Carmen Jewel Jones Alejandra Ospina Sanya Simmons Leanne Woodward (not a complete list) The narration and audio were OK to good, but imbalanced. One of the i......more


Quotes

"[A] witty, vulnerable, and insightful collection that highlights a diverse roster of disabled writers. . . . This anthology is not only a joy to read but also a welcome introduction to innovative, intensely liberating approaches that are sure to change the way readers feel about traditional notions of intimacy. A poignant anthology about ability and intimacy that espouses a gorgeously original worldview." 
—Kirkus Reviews