Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World by Kai Cheng Thom

14 reviews

ttorisaurus's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Self harm, Sexual assault, Transphobia, Rape, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Murder, and Suicide attempt

moonyreadsbystarlight's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective

4.0

This collection of essays and poetry is about queer community, how we love and what we can do to love better and be the key to each other's thriving (not just survival). She lays bare the ways in which people fail to love each other fully, gives us a look into ways people do love and continue to love, and (most importantly) asks us to imagine a world where we do embrace love and to think about how we can get there. 

There were a couple of pieces that I wish she had expanded on more or made certain points more clear, but there were so many amazing essays in here! I'm definitely excited to check out her other works.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, Suicide, and Transphobia

Moderate: Death, Violence, and Homophobia

bi_n_large's review

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Transphobia, and Self harm

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Racism, Murder, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Hate crime, and Gun violence

Minor: Sexual assault, Physical abuse, and Rape

noahsingh's review

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Sexual harassment

caprivoyant's review against another edition

I'm actually quite enjoying this book — it's got a lot of good things to meditate and journal on — but I think I picked it up at the wrong time. There are some heavy topics in here and, although I'm getting gems and feeling seen and validated by so many of the essays/poems... My heart can't take some of the subject matter right now. I think I need more time with each essay/poem than the library is giving me. I've had it for a little over 5 weeks now and have only gotten 67 pages in... 🥺 

I'm going to give it back to the library and let someone enjoy it who's in a better place to soak in all the info right now. Maybe I'll pick it back up again later. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Sexual assault, Rape, Mental illness, and Transphobia

caelysium's review

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia and Mental illness

Moderate: Homophobia, Toxic relationship, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Dysphoria, and Murder

Minor: Ableism, Cultural appropriation, and Domestic abuse

bogflower's review

challenging inspiring reflective

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Suicide, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Death, Grief, Hate crime, Mental illness, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Minor: Homophobia

mckenzieminter's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault and Sexual harassment

bobsacoolword's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

Reading the reviews for this book makes me realize I don't think anyone really knows who the target audience is and a lot of reviewers who are represented in the marginalized communities mentioned in the books have criticized the content of the books. I don't know if I feel comfortable giving a numerical review because both this book and the reviews have reminded me how much harder I need to work at educating myself on these topics. I am giving this book 4 stars because I found it informative and insightful, but also because it resonated with some of my own experiences. Ordinarily, I'd give any book that gave me as much as it did 5 stars, but I want to acknowledge that other reviewers have mentioned that some of the arguments made missed the mark for them.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Homophobia, Mental illness, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Transphobia, Toxic relationship, and Violence

This book covers a lot of tough topics. I tried to pull from some of the most common content warning on reviews for the book, but I would definitely be prepared for things that can be tough to talk about.

dytiscusfriend's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

Kai Cheng Thom is remarkable in her ability to write incisively nuanced takes. Her writing is grounding, healing, painful, and needed. Her generosity, humility, and unapologetic love (especially for herself) is extraordinary and a salve in this era of twitter hot takes.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Addiction, Body shaming, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Hate crime, Misogyny, Murder, Police brutality, Racism, Rape, Religious bigotry, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Transphobia, and Xenophobia