Reviews tagging 'Schizophrenia/Psychosis '

Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protest, and the Pursuit of Freedom by Derecka Purnell

2 reviews

progeny8277's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

An incredible read. Purnell provides a great ratio of stories to statistics, and every piece of information makes a compelling case for abolition. This was not an issue I had any prior education on, but the author connected abolition to many topics I did have experience with, such as environmentalism and LGBT rights. It was especially enlightening for me, someone who has had very few interactions with the police, as to how awful having to deal with them can be.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality

Moderate: Addiction, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Transphobia, Violence, Kidnapping, Mass/school shootings, Stalking, Abortion, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Alcohol, Colonisation, War, and Classism

amberinpieces's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative tense medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Racism, Police brutality, Death of parent, Colonisation, and Classism

Moderate: Cancer, Gun violence, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Transphobia, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Islamophobia, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Ableism, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Xenophobia, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Mass/school shootings, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Deportation