Reviews tagging 'Police brutality'

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

2 reviews

embervleo's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Incest, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Police brutality, Grief, Abortion, Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, 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