Reviews tagging 'Self harm'

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay

28 reviews

pjwanders's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Vomit

jettaparadis's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Roxanne Gay time and time again is a breathtaking writer 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Rape, Sexual assault, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racism, Self harm, Sexual violence, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Ableism, Emotional abuse, and Injury/Injury detail

laurenkimoto's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

4.5

Some memoirs just feel like info dumps about the author but this, Roxane Gay was able to weave a thread throughout that continued to tie together the whole memoir. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Lesbophobia, Sexual harassment, and Dysphoria

skbgfd's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Eating disorder, and Rape

Moderate: Racism and Self harm

kebpoet's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder and Physical abuse

Moderate: Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Physical abuse, and Self harm

Minor: Vomit

maggieparedesauthor's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Mental illness, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and Dysphoria

clareduffy's review against another edition

dark reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

leyza052's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

foreverinastory's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

Brutally honest, this memoir scraped both me and Roxane to the bone.

CWs: Rape, sexual assault, sexual violence, trauma, eating disorder, vomit, fatphobia, body shaming, racism, emotional abuse, toxic relationship. Moderate: Medical content, medical trauma, medical fatphobia, domestic abuse, sexual content, misogyny, sexism, injury/injury detail, mental illness, self harm, ableism, suicidal thoughts. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

Moderate: Ableism, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

afroheaux's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

As a fat queer black woman who comes from Caribbean heritage, this was the first time I felt truly seen in a book. People don’t understand what it’s like to live in a fat body and what it’s like to navigate the world physically and emotionally. The scars you carry on your skin and in your heart. Roxane Gay opens herself up to show what that’s like and I am so grateful for her words. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, and Toxic relationship