Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century: Unabridged Selections Free Audiobook Download by Alice Wong
Alice Wong is a writer, educator, and disability advocate. Her work focuses on the intersections of culture and disability, including how the media portrays people with disabilities, how we often misunderstand other cultures and societies' view of disability, and how outdated assumptions about what it means to be "disabled" create barriers in our lives.
Alice Wong is a disability rights activist, lawyer, professor and mother. Alice was diagnosed with polio at the age of 4 and has been living a life of disability all her life. Her first-person account of what it's like to live in a world designed by people who do not understand disability is an insightful audiobook.
Alice Wong tells the stories of people with disabilities from her own personal experience. She is an activist, advocate, and author of 'Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century' which is a collection of first-person stories from people with disabilities. Alice says that these stories are as personal as they are universal.
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century is a collection of stories from people with disabilities that have been published in various sources ranging from magazines and newspapers to books. The author, Alice Wong, was an Assistant Professor at Harvard University before she became a disability rights advocate. Each story has a different perspective and offers insight into what it's like living with a disability in the twenty-first century.
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century: Unabridged Selections is an audiobook featuring a collection of interviews with people who have varying kinds of disabilities. These stories are from the perspective of these disabled individuals, with the interviews broken into sections on personal experiences and appreciation for their disabilities, as well as reflections about changing attitudes and perceptions. Chapters include 'Life without a Voice', 'No One Else Will Take You', 'The Future of Disability in America', 'What is It Like to be Blind?' and more.
This audiobook features short stories about how the author, Alice Wong, has been affected by her disability. It is an inspiring read for all those who have a disability that they are yet to come out with, as well as those who are working on their own personal struggle and battles.
Published Date | 2020-06-30 |
Duration | 8 hours 1 minutes |
Author | Alice Wong |
Narrated | Alice Wong, Alejandra Ospina |
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Abridged | No |
Is It Free? | 30-days Free |
Category | Non-Fiction |
Parent Category | Social Science, Essays & Anthologies, General |