Reviews tagging 'Suicide'
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
6 reviews
itkit's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Colonisation and Forced institutionalization
Moderate: Genocide
Minor: Suicide
dhiyanah's review against another edition
5.0
By sharing her lived experiences in reclaiming, remembering, and honoring practices kept alive by her own and other indigenous lineages (US-based), the author invites us to reflect on our own capacities and efforts of being in right relationship with the living world. In this book, I found reflections of how my own struggles of unbelonging and loneliness are linked to a sense of feeling orphaned from land, from wider community. I found deep queries and burning desires within me - not having much framework for being local to anywhere - to embody a more reciprocal and grounded approach to the natural world, to this planet who still feeds and tends to us through all this chaos.
For this and so much more, I feel this is a crucial read to help situate and cultivate hope, courage, and determination within as we journey through these giant waves of grief and renewal with our Mother Earth.
Graphic: Colonisation, Forced institutionalization, and Genocide
Moderate: Racism and Grief
Minor: Animal death, Fire/Fire injury, Suicide, and Violence
talonsontypewriters's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Colonisation and Racism
Moderate: Xenophobia, Death, War, Grief, Religious bigotry, Animal death, Genocide, Fire/Fire injury, Classism, and Forced institutionalization
Minor: Sexism, Suicide, Vomit, Alcohol, Car accident, Cannibalism, Excrement, Abandonment, Child death, Animal cruelty, Pregnancy, Cultural appropriation, Misogyny, Suicide attempt, and Murder
Climate change, habitat destruction, pollution.nodogsonthemoon's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Racism, Colonisation, Animal death, Grief, Death, Fire/Fire injury, and Genocide
Minor: Child death, Cannibalism, Car accident, Hate crime, Suicide, and War
herk's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Death, Death of parent, Suicide, and Racism
daphnehumming's review against another edition
5.0
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The gift given to my by the other that I cherish most is the idea that the natural places I love might love me back.I only take issue with one page of this book, where it is
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implied that improper connection with the Earth is what made someone commit suicide. I don’t really think that is for someone who is not that person to decideOverall I would highly recommend the book to any reader, and especially to any person who feels a connection with nature.
Moderate: Genocide
Minor: Suicide