Reviews tagging 'Rape'

Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

3 reviews

razzberry_pi's review against another edition

challenging emotional tense fast-paced

4.75

really interesting both from a memoir/experience perspective but also as a vision of Toronto activism in the 90s/00s before I was born and how different it was pre-gentrification

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Chronic illness, Incest, Rape, Sexual violence, and Forced institutionalization

thedisabledreader's review

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Incest, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Cultural appropriation, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

courtneyfalling's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced

4.0

This made me cry cathartically, especially near the ending. I think so many childhood trauma and recovery memoirs follow a very linear arc, describing traumatic events in detail for presumably non-traumatized but fascinated audiences, then end with an acceptance of traditional, usually heteronormative and relatively depoliticized new family life. And they rarely get into what happens if trauma follows you, continues to pop up from triggers, changes who you are or what you want to find. Instead, this memoir focused a lot on trying to build a life, on the actual, messy complexity of "healing." I want to believe that sensitive, confused, sick, radical adults exist out there and don't just die or otherwise fade out in their early to mid-twenties, and in its rawness, this was also hopeful. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Incest, Rape, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Ableism, Chronic illness, Xenophobia, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Drug use, Police brutality, and Colonisation