Reviews tagging 'Cultural appropriation'

Les Argonautes by Maggie Nelson

4 reviews

ingebored's review against another edition

slow-paced

2.0

I really wanted to like this book, but I found it lazy and ironically normative. From Nelson's almost comical insistance that she is not normative because she likes anal to the continuously condescending tone towards normative lives is really tiresome. The interesting points are fragmented and the themes don't tie together very well. I cringed when Nelson describes giving her child a Native American name without having any ties to Indigenous culture, and then immediately justifies it by one Indigenous woman saying it was okay. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content and Terminal illness

Minor: Cultural appropriation

o3tri's review against another edition

medium-paced

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Sexism, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Cultural appropriation

Moderate: Ableism, Body shaming, Child abuse, Deadnaming, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Hate crime, Homophobia, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Religious bigotry, Stalking, and Lesbophobia

lilysendroff's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

4.25

Combination of theory and memoir, muddies the binary of transgressive and normative through reflections on queerness, motherhood, pregnancy, and family. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Terminal illness, Stalking, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Cultural appropriation

Moderate: Addiction and Sexism

Minor: Abortion

Frequent mentions of Buddhism, reference to a theorist who makes questionable claims about being pregnant with mixed children as a white woman, and naming their child with a Native American name are all aspects of the books that entirely fail to interrogate the role whiteness, which is both jarring and disappointing.

suspicious_salmon's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Pregnancy

Moderate: Infertility, Sexual content, Transphobia, Medical content, Lesbophobia, and Dysphoria

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Deadnaming, Miscarriage, Terminal illness, Excrement, Grief, Stalking, and Cultural appropriation