Reviews tagging 'Medical trauma'

A Black Women's History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry, Kali Nicole Gross

4 reviews

aoogah's review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Sexual violence, Slavery, Violence, and Police brutality

Moderate: Sexism and Medical trauma

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peachmoni's review against another edition

challenging informative slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Racism, Slavery, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Misogyny, Rape, Transphobia, and Police brutality

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Child death, Deadnaming, Homophobia, Infertility, Racial slurs, Suicide, Excrement, Vomit, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Lesbophobia, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, War, and Classism

decklededgess's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

trigger warnings: rape, assault, suicide, depression, murder, forced sterilization, sexism, homophobia, racism, violence

Most of the triggers are mentioned in passing and not described in detail. The impact of these acts is definitely expounded on to explain how such events impacted history and the lives of the women and non binary people mentioned throughout the book.

A heartbreaking yet inspiring account of Black women and gender non conforming people who changed the course of history in America. This was super informative and adds to the wealth of Black history I've been reading up on. This certainly fills out a lot of the holes in the historical accounts considering women and Black people are consistently left out due to their "lack of relevance" or whatever weak excuse there is.
I did find that the book tended to focus more on the general history surrounding the women instead of detailed accounts of their lives and accomplishments but I think this book is meant more as a survey and a jumping point to start researching the names over a comprehensive guide of history itself. I really appreciated this.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Ableism, Biphobia, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Transphobia, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Medical content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Abortion, Suicide attempt, and Murder

aqtbenz's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, and Murder