Reviews tagging 'Sexual harassment'

They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom by Dena Takruri, Ahed Tamimi

5 reviews

diannasbooks's review

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring sad tense medium-paced

5.0

This memoir was so powerful. I spent the majority of the book ugly crying. It opened my eyes. Due to the current situation going on in Palestine, I went searching and found this book. I had no idea the horrors they are going through and have been going through for 75 years. Please pick up this book. It is so powerful and moving. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Sexual harassment, Hate crime, Grief, Genocide, Child abuse, Death, Bullying, Ableism, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Violence, Torture, Mental illness, War, Physical abuse, and Misogyny

Minor: Vomit

murve's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Death, Colonisation, Xenophobia, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Genocide, Confinement, Kidnapping, Islamophobia, Torture, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Police brutality, and Physical abuse

redthistle's review

emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Xenophobia, Racism, Physical abuse, Gun violence, Genocide, Dysphoria, Violence, Kidnapping, Death, Police brutality, Torture, War, Child abuse, and Emotional abuse

readingwithkaitlyn's review

emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Death, Blood, Grief, Colonisation, Genocide, Torture, Police brutality, Murder, Confinement, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Mental illness, Misogyny, Body horror, and Hate crime

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Medical content, Medical trauma, Islamophobia, Child death, Suicide, Vomit, and Kidnapping

Minor: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Excrement, Religious bigotry, Pedophilia, Antisemitism, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Classism, Rape, Animal death, and Racism

jenskosmos's review

emotional hopeful informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

If you need help in understanding the Free Palestine movement, this is the book you need to read. It goes in-depth of personal experiences of Ahed and her whole family and town living under apartheid occupation. It is horrifying what they have gone through but important to truly learn what the occupation is doing to Palestinians just for existing.

Dena Takruri is a journalist I have admired for a long time. Writing in this book is of quality. Dena clearly knew how to highlight Ahed's own voice.

This review is short because I think it would be better to read the book yourself rather than just rely on what others are saying, if it is worth reading. It is.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, and War

Moderate: Sexual harassment and Sexual assault