Reviews tagging 'Torture'

README.txt by Chelsea Manning

18 reviews

gentle_garbage_baby's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

By reading this book, you get a sense of Chelsea's struggles throughout her life, and how boxed-in she has felt by different aspects of it, whether that be from a political/military standpoint and her ideals, or how she's dealt with her identity and how people around her responded to that. She's been through a whole lot of abhorrent stuff in her life, and she articulates it amazingly in this book. An excellent read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Transphobia, Violence, Suicide attempt, Dysphoria, and War

Moderate: Outing

Minor: Deadnaming and Alcohol

rat_girly's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.75

Harrowing, impactful, inspiring. Gave me a lot to think about, especially considering the US funded atrocities happening in Palestine at the moment. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Torture, Transphobia, Police brutality, Dysphoria, and War

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Hate crime, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Vomit, Suicide attempt, Outing, and Sexual harassment

mar's review against another edition

dark informative medium-paced

5.0

as someone who was only vaguely familiar with chelsea manning's story beforehand - i'm not american & was a child when it all went down - learning what she had to endure was absolutely infuriating. nothing new i know but GOD the shit the american military gets away with is fucking mind-boggling

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Sexual assault, Torture, Transphobia, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Homophobia, Racism, Violence, and War

annoyedhumanoid's review against another edition

dark informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

intensely readable but i would have liked more. fuck the DOD for the redactions. the craziest part is that they PUT HER BACK IN JAIL for another year, not mentioned in the book. the injustice she faced/faces is so flagrant you almost forget the US has a constitution meant to protect against it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Transphobia, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Suicide attempt, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Dysphoria, and War

Moderate: Bullying, Cursing, Death, Eating disorder, Gun violence, Racism, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Murder, Outing, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Deadnaming, Drug use, Sexual content, Xenophobia, and Blood

katara42's review against another edition

challenging dark informative tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Transphobia, Violence, and War

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Suicide attempt, and Dysphoria

nevial's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Homophobia, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Transphobia, Violence, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Outing, Alcohol, and War

fee1111's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Torture, Transphobia, and War

Moderate: Deadnaming, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Self harm

jennaleece's review against another edition

dark informative sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Transphobia, Police brutality, and Suicide attempt

eli99's review against another edition

dark emotional informative fast-paced

4.0

Every young civilian working on DOD contracts should read this especially if they're LGBT. 

Very insightful to something that was going at the same time as my youth that I didn't understand at the time. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Deadnaming, Homophobia, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Transphobia, Police brutality, Suicide attempt, Outing, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Dysphoria, and War

martinza's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

She is so cool!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Self harm, Torture, Transphobia, Forced institutionalization, Suicide attempt, and War