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5.0
I've been wanting an abolitionist therapy lens for months, and this helps with that need. As a disabled queer person i burned myself out too quickly in life & now I have to deal with multiple meltdowns/shutdowns per day to say the least of it. This book helps me attend to that need
I got this book via an audiobook from my library & I'm considering buying it because the narrator talks so slow that I can use this the way some people play instrumental music, that is a way to calm down (like I have to reduce stimuli, so music can in fact be stimulating. Listening to the book as I relax helps me get over the guilt of needing to take care of my body. It helps me spit back out the poison of the school to orison pipeline system that fucked up my body & burned it out so quickly.)
Please note this book is awkward to label with content warnings about because yeah it talks about systems of oppression because it seeks to combat/resist those. It talks about grind culture as deriving from slavery. And you can't just rest, the rest needs to be combined with anti-racism, anti-capitalism, anti-sexism. But the book is also healing. I feel this is the case with other books I read, but from my perspective as an autistic person like this book is talking about like how to cope with being triggered, so that's a second layer other books usually don't have.
I got this book via an audiobook from my library & I'm considering buying it because the narrator talks so slow that I can use this the way some people play instrumental music, that is a way to calm down (like I have to reduce stimuli, so music can in fact be stimulating. Listening to the book as I relax helps me get over the guilt of needing to take care of my body. It helps me spit back out the poison of the school to orison pipeline system that fucked up my body & burned it out so quickly.)
Please note this book is awkward to label with content warnings about because yeah it talks about systems of oppression because it seeks to combat/resist those. It talks about grind culture as deriving from slavery. And you can't just rest, the rest needs to be combined with anti-racism, anti-capitalism, anti-sexism. But the book is also healing. I feel this is the case with other books I read, but from my perspective as an autistic person like this book is talking about like how to cope with being triggered, so that's a second layer other books usually don't have.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Genocide, Racism, Slavery, Torture, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism