Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

6 reviews

biobeetle's review

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Transphobia, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Homophobia, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, and Abandonment

tlaynejones's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

This is the best book I’ve read this year. The writing is deeply compassionate thoughtful and challenging. I am grateful to have the opportunity to question and expand many of my long held understandings of the world and of myself. Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha shared her experiences, vulnerability, strengths, and desires with a warm generous relatability. I wish everyone would read this. Highly recommended.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism and Chronic illness

Moderate: Body shaming, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Incest, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, and Dysphoria

arsenic_'s review

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Toxic friendship

rebeccafarren's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Grief

Moderate: Bullying, Child abuse, Incest, Mental illness, Racism, Toxic relationship, Excrement, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, and Gaslighting

Minor: Torture, Transphobia, Forced institutionalization, and Vomit

emilykval's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual harassment, and Colonisation

achingallover's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective slow-paced

3.0

Rating may be revised later.
Part VI was really good and gave me a lot to think about, but other parts were repetitive, reductive, bad advice (eg regarding medication) or, just, lots of acronyms that weren't explained (the irony that it discusses making writing less academic to be accessible is not lost on me).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Incest, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, and Grief