Reviews tagging 'Trafficking'

Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings

5 reviews

nyoom's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

0.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Kidnapping, Murder, Adult/minor relationship, Classism, Confinement, Cultural appropriation, Death, Death of parent, Fatphobia, Rape, Ableism, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Colonisation, Deportation, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Alcohol, Child death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Sexual violence, Slavery, Trafficking, Violence, Xenophobia, Drug abuse, Genocide, Medical content, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Torture, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, and Transphobia

Moderate: Medical trauma, Gore, and Blood

orlagal's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Torture, Misogyny, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Slavery, Trafficking, Abandonment, Blood, Body shaming, Bullying, Classism, Colonisation, Death, Gaslighting, Racial slurs, Racism, Xenophobia, Body horror, Cultural appropriation, Fatphobia, Forced institutionalization, and Violence

becksusername's review against another edition

dark informative sad slow-paced

4.5

This was really interesting and gave a wide range of context for the fatphobic culture we currently live in. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Antisemitism, Body shaming, Colonisation, Fatphobia, Genocide, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Racism, Slavery, Trafficking, Xenophobia, and Eating disorder

kylieqrada's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

Another one for the Non-Fiction Favorites/Recommend to Everyone/Hi My Name Is Kylie Have You Read This Book list. I feel like I'm a broken record when I comes to non-fiction, but the truth is that I just don't read non-fic unless it centers topics that I am passionate about, so I generally find myself rating it very highly. Fearing the Black Body is an exploration of racism and fatphobia, the examination (and eradication) of which are central to the philosophy of body liberation, which I follow. I could gush about this book for days, but it really does speak for itself. A stunning academic work that is also very accessible and unbiased. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Colonisation, Xenophobia, Trafficking, Slavery, Religious bigotry, Racism, Racial slurs, Misogyny, Genocide, and Fatphobia

rachbake's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Fatphobia, Eating disorder, Xenophobia, Body shaming, Trafficking, and Antisemitism

Minor: Ableism, Medical trauma, and Slavery