Reviews tagging 'Outing'

Punch Me Up to the Gods: A Memoir by Brian Broome

3 reviews

aus10england's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.75

Wow, did this hit. What a brilliant memoir about black queer identity. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Outing, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Racism, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, and Rape

mpruter's review

dark emotional funny sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Cursing, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Misogyny, Outing, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, and Sexual content

paigeisinabook's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

A memoir about Blackness, masculinity, sexuality, colorism, and addiction. A letter to Black men, young and old.

Following Brian Broome (with a special chapter from his mother’s POV), we see how he was raised to enact toxic masculinity and compulsory heteronormativity. Every other chapter is dedicated to the initiation of a young boy, Tuan, to the world of being a stereotypical man. The cycle continues.

This book is very good. Many lines stood out as strong and impactful and I wish that I had read it to highlight these beautiful words. Broome is a poet and it shows.

Nothing in this book lagged. Nothing was out of place.

5 out of 5 Would recommend

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use

Moderate: Child abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual content, Racism, Outing, and Homophobia

Minor: Death of parent