Reviews tagging 'Ableism'

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou

9 reviews

readingwithkaitlyn's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death, Pedophilia, Sexual violence, Rape, Violence, Racism, Sexual harassment, Abandonment, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Body shaming, Ableism, Sexism, Grief, Mental illness, Alcohol, Pregnancy, Injury/injury detail, Sexual content, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Misogyny, Medical content, and Child abuse

Minor: Child death, Bullying, War, Infidelity, Car accident, Police brutality, Torture, Slavery, Infertility, Adult/minor relationship, Excrement, Blood, Suicidal thoughts, Homophobia, Drug use, and Classism

Poverty, WWII, concentration camps, Japanese displacement, homelessness, d slur.

mayavd's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Classism, Death, Incest, Child abuse, Homophobia, and Lesbophobia

michaelion's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

4.25

One thing that makes it hard to get through nonfiction is that it is often pure and objective fact, nothing but hard statements and the evidence to back it up, but Angelou writes in a way that doesn't just feel the way a memoir / autobiography would, like someone telling their life story, but in a way that is colorful and bright and fluid like fiction usually is. Well, good fiction at least.

And on a personal note a lot of moments hit a little tew close to home. I'm not gonna list them but not me and Miss Dr Angelou living the same life having the same experiences feeling the same feelings!!! I had to put the book down a couple times and cover my face!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Rape, Child abuse, Racism, Domestic abuse, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Ableism, Classism, Grief, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Body horror, Injury/injury detail, Blood, Violence, Abandonment, Gaslighting, Murder, and Xenophobia

Minor: Hate crime, Abortion, Fatphobia, and Police brutality

lucille_c's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Pedophilia, Rape, Ableism, Lesbophobia, Sexual assault, Violence, and Racism

Moderate: Infidelity, Slavery, Abandonment, Alcohol, Death, Murder, and Blood

Minor: War, Suicidal thoughts, and Pregnancy

nrhilmer's review against another edition

challenging emotional slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Pedophilia, Incest, Rape, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Pregnancy, Cursing, Sexism, Ableism, Infidelity, Racial slurs, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Body shaming, Classism, and Hate crime

kalross's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, Rape, and Pedophilia

Moderate: Ableism, Abandonment, Pregnancy, and Blood

angelinepro's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Rape, Homophobia, Racism, and Racial slurs

angelbabe_cj's review against another edition

challenging reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

Not an easy read for the contents, but beautifully written and important. There's a lot to unpack in this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Rape, Racism, and Pedophilia

Moderate: Violence, Ableism, and Death

Rape:

Spoiler

It does mention in the blurb but the rape is of a minor, the first person child, Angelou being the victim. It is explicitly on screen and in a fair amount of detail, although relatively brief.

Outcomes of rape:

Spoiler

Perpetrator is reported, tried, jailed, and somehow let out before being killed (implied by Angelou's Uncles)

Violence is mostly off-screen or the results described after the fact, but there are several instances. Racism: A major theme of the book. Includes both more major and minor events, featuring both systemic and more direct racism, to varying degrees of detail. Setting 1930s and 1940s. Death: doesn't happen on screen but some dead bodies described.

sunnie's review against another edition

challenging dark informative fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Racism, Rape, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Violence and Ableism

Minor: Homophobia