Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist by Judith Heumann

5 reviews

finnsnowbevi's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Chronic illness, Ableism, Body shaming, Bullying, Sexism, Terminal illness, and Misogyny

Moderate: Violence, Antisemitism, Genocide, Medical content, Police brutality, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Forced institutionalization

Minor: Sexual harassment and Sexual assault

sammymilfort's review against another edition

informative reflective slow-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Medical trauma, Sexual assault, and Ableism

leweylibrary's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.75

First of all, this is fish an important book to read because Judith is such an important historical figure that not many people know much about our have even heard of her because, as she explains, the Disability Rights Movement didn't and often still doesn't get the same attention as other movements. I learned so much about pivotal moments in US history and was fascinated by Judith's life and journey. I do wish the end had talked more about what she's been up to outside of her activism and wanted more detail in the beginning about how she got started in this work. She does talk about it, it just feels like it goes by really quickly compared to like the sit-in part.

Overall, in really glad I read this one. It's so powerful seeing the work that people like Judith were putting in behind the scenes and what they thought of events as they unfolded. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Ableism, and Gaslighting

Minor: Abortion

angreadseverything's review against another edition

informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

This book has been on my tbr for years since I saw the documentary Crip Camp. Heumann did so much for the disability rights movement, and as someone who was born in a world where accessibility services are mostly commonplace, it's unfathomable to think of a world where people with disabilities had to fight for ordinary things like ramps in schools and government buildings, or even the right to be a teacher. RIP to one of the greatest activists of my life who made the world a better place.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism

Moderate: Bullying

Minor: Blood, Cancer, Sexual assault, War, and Antisemitism

Heumann was a disability right's activist so the entire book is about her life and her work where many people treated her differently/worse because of her disability (abelism)

Heumann's father had cancer, Heumann mentions how msny disabled people are sexually assaulted, Heumann's family is Jewish and her parents were German immigrants who left Germany around the time of the Holocaust (anti-Semitism, war)

novella42's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

Like many Americans, even other Americans who grew up with a disability, I had no clue that there had been a civil rights movement that fought hard for things I took for granted, like curb cuts,  wheelchair accessible buses, and my entire education. Hearing Judy's stories about being one of the founders of this movement meant so much to me. I was in awe of her already from watching Crip Camp (a documentary I now beg my friends and family to watch, after I avoided it myself for years because of how hard it was for me to reclaim the word "crip"). Judy Heumann is a tour de force. I'd call her a force of nature, but this book makes it clear she is a force of humanity. Unrepentant, unyielding, undeniably passionate about human rights, equity, and inclusion. I am grateful to be alive in the world Judy helped build. I am grateful she shared her story so my heart could ache with recognition of our shared struggles, and lift with hope that if she can fight for equity and change the world, maybe you and I can, too.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Chronic illness, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Antisemitism, Emotional abuse, Medical trauma, Sexism, Child abuse, Body shaming, Terminal illness, Ableism, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Genocide and Forced institutionalization

Minor: Racism, Confinement, Cancer, Sexual assault, Police brutality, and Death of parent