Reviews tagging 'Sexism'

Home Body by Rupi Kaur

28 reviews

tanjalunney's review

dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Hate crime, and Cultural appropriation

the_vegan_bookworm's review

emotional hopeful inspiring fast-paced

5.0

I avoided reading this book for a long time, because I thought it was overhyped. But after reading this poetry, it might be one of my favourite poetry collections. Not all of the poems are great, in my opinion, and some of the pages aren't really poems so much as statements. This being said, Rupi wrote so many things that struck a chord really strongly with me and there were large parts of this book that I couldn't help but meditate on and feel moved by. And isn't that emotional connection the sign of great poetry? 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Rape, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Domestic abuse, Racism, and Sexism

emoryscott's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Misogyny, Xenophobia, Lesbophobia, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Classism, Deportation, Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, Abortion, Sexual content, Cursing, Racism, Eating disorder, Sexual violence, Pedophilia, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic friendship, Suicidal thoughts, Sexism, Pregnancy, Fatphobia, Rape, Physical abuse, Hate crime, Grief, Chronic illness, Child abuse, Biphobia, Adult/minor relationship, Ableism, Mental illness, and Homophobia

abbyluvsfrogs444's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.5

Such a fantastic poetry collection. Almost every page is highlighted or annotated. So many of these poems hit home. I am in love with Rupi Kaur's words. Completely in love. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Dysphoria, Body shaming, Classism, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Racism, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Rape

skyfluff8's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Sexual violence, Rape, Pedophilia, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, War, Sexism, Pregnancy, and Violence

montyalmoro's review against another edition

dark hopeful reflective fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Sexual content, Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

pricekillick's review against another edition

emotional reflective fast-paced

3.0

Not my favourite from Kaur, but still enjoyed her style and raw experience.

‘what we lived through 
is living in us’ 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Sexual harassment, and Mental illness

intonewrealms's review

dark reflective fast-paced

1.5

This poetry collection covers some very raw, painful experiences and if you’re going to check it out I would definitely be aware of that.

The book is split into four sections: Mind; Heart; Rest; Awake. I would say that Mind is far and away the best as it contains the most amount of poems which I feel actually manage to explore Kaur’s trauma or ruminate on her experiences whereas I feel a lot of this stuff is pretty classic ‘Instagram poetry’. A lot of it is also just very nothingy for example whilst I wholeheartedly agree with the statement ‘I am not interested in a feminism/ that excludes trans women’ to me that is not poetry, it is just a statement. In the longer poems my biggest issues is the punctuation: full stops in the middle of a sentence; line breaks without a purpose. If you are going to play with punctuation for a reason I understand that but this just felt like she was trying to be ✨different✨ because if you read this poetry aloud the way that she has written it down it sounds ridiculous! I also don’t understand why sometimes she does this thing of putting a hyphen and then the last line of the poem as if it’s the title. One thing I will say I liked was her ocasional word play, such as Sikh and sick, and the alliterative sound of the phrase ‘soles swollen’ for example, but I wish she had done things like this an awful lot more.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Rape

Moderate: Racism and Sexism

citrusgrove's review

emotional inspiring

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Rape, Racism, and Child abuse

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Sexism, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Domestic abuse

ospreyadventure's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Classism, and Racism