Reviews tagging 'Islamophobia'

A Liberdade é Uma Luta Constante: Ferguson, a Palestina e as Bases de um Movimento by Angela Y. Davis

20 reviews

jessereadsthings's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, and Colonisation

Moderate: Hate crime, Police brutality, and Classism

Minor: Ableism, Homophobia, Sexual assault, Transphobia, Antisemitism, and Islamophobia

abitbetterbooks's review against another edition

challenging informative medium-paced

It seems impossible to rate a work that is this important and that is so textured and layered.

I will say that the audio format made it a bit confusing to distinguish when a question was being posed and when Davis was answering in the interviews, but I loved hearing her narrate her own words. I do think because it’s separate occasions pieced together there is a bit of repetition but I think it mostly works and serves to drive home important points. 

It’s sad because I do remember so clearly the period from which these writings and talks were from: not long after the Occupy movement, on the heels of groundbreaking activism in Ferguson and the heartbreaking loss of more Black lives like Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, and Michael Brown. And yet this work is more relevant than ever. 

I loved the way Davis drew large connections between global movements, and evoked the history of collective actions behind dismantling segregation, and South African apartheid, while discussing the current state of life in Palestine. I really would love a hard copy or ebook of this to mark up and highlight important passages!

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Content Warnings

Minor: Confinement, Domestic abuse, Genocide, Hate crime, Racism, Sexism, Slavery, Transphobia, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Murder, Colonisation, and Deportation

breandthebooks's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Genocide, Racism, Sexual violence, Transphobia, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Islamophobia, and Deportation

peggy_racham's review against another edition

5.0

Reading a book written in 2015, with speeches from 2013, while its all still relative in 2023 is a bit jarring. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Transphobia, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Islamophobia, Colonisation, War, Classism, and Deportation

caseythereader's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Racism, Slavery, Violence, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Colonisation, War, Classism, and Deportation

mattyvreads's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

Angela Davis is a gift. Wholly informative, and not a wasted word. This is such a powerful read, and provides much needed context and perspective on the struggle of the Palestinian people and the globalization of the Black liberation movement. She emphasizes the importance and impact of intersectionality, not just as individuals, but in a larger sense, the intersectionality of struggles.

Angela Davis writes, “just as we say ‘never again’ with respect to the facism that produced the Holocaust, we should say ‘never again’ with respect to apartheid in South Africa and in the Southern U.S.. That means, first and foremost, that we will have to expand and deepen our solidarity with the people of Palestine, people of all genders and sexualities, people inside and outside prison walls, people inside and outside of the apartheid wall.”

Each interview and speech enclosed in this collection is as important and poignant as the last.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Genocide, Homophobia, Misogyny, Racism, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Transphobia, Violence, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Murder, and War

remimicha's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Transphobia, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Murder, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, and Deportation

souplover2001's review against another edition

informative

4.0

wish i had a physical copy so i cld mark down some notes. did not know it was a series of essays from different speeches or talks rather than a single narrative so some points did repeat, but v informative nonetheless !! feminism and abolition from chapter 8 was a highlight for me as well <3

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Police brutality, Colonisation, and War

Minor: Racism, Transphobia, and Islamophobia

junefish's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Racism, Xenophobia, and Police brutality

Moderate: Child abuse, Confinement, Death, and Islamophobia

Minor: Slavery

achingallover's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Slavery, Torture, Transphobia, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Religious bigotry, and Murder