Reviews tagging 'Infertility'

Everything You Wanted to Know about Indians But Were Afraid to Ask by Anton Treuer

2 reviews

zombiezami's review

informative reflective

3.0

I like how this book is organized to be a ready reference to common questions people have. I knew a majority of the facts in this book, so I found the kinds of questions that people have asked the author and other indigenous people are truly outrageous. It is awful that widespread ignorance necessitates a book like this, but I'm glad it exists for those who need it. 

There were times in the book where I felt the author was engaging in respectability politics, for example, when he uses the phrase "culture of poverty."

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Genocide, Gore, Infertility, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Confinement, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Alcohol, and Classism

Minor: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Infidelity, and Pregnancy

morrisimo's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

3.25

An insightful and concise informational book. I originally started reading this because I was going to start working with Native youth and I wanted a baseline of information and in this aim I think it succeeded. I appreciated how it was split into different topic sections (ie cultural, political, economic). I also think it was very fairly presented, keeping both natives and non-natives accountable. Very informative and interesting. If you're looking for a book on Native culture in a Q&A form, I'd definitely recommend this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide and Racism

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Infertility, Racial slurs, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Murder, Cultural appropriation, and Classism