Reviews tagging 'Sexual violence'

C+nto & Othered Poems by Joelle Taylor

5 reviews

serendipitysbooks's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

 C+nto (such a clever title) is a love letter to butch women and butch bars. Joelle Taylor is a word wizard - I am in awe of her talent - and her words made me fall in love with them, too. I knew basically nothing about butch culture prior to this collection, so I really appreciated both the glossary and its location at the front of the book. Some of the poems were heartbreakingly achingly tender, while others were fuelled by and inspired righteous rage.They are deeply personal and unabashedly political. I absolutely loved this collection for what it taught me and what it made me feel. Anything Joelle Taylor writes I'll read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Sexual violence, Violence, and Lesbophobia

words_and_coffee's review

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring sad medium-paced

4.5

"let us walk alone at night /& let the night not follow us"

A powerful, beautifully expressed, and at times brutal collection

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Hate crime, Homophobia, Violence, and Lesbophobia

Moderate: Misogyny, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

rosalind's review

dark emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

Heartbreaking, fluid, ethereal, necessary.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Homophobia, Sexual content, Violence, and Lesbophobia

Moderate: Bullying, Death, Sexual violence, Transphobia, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Genocide, Blood, and Pregnancy

katewhite77's review

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

This is a very moving collection. 

Exploring queer history, safe spaces, butch identity grief and loss, what it is to live in a state where being queer is illegal. Physical and sexual violence. 

As you can tell from my description this is not an easy read but, if and when you are up for it, Joelle will repay you in spades. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Death, Hate crime, Homophobia, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, and Grief

annaonthepage's review

dark emotional inspiring tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Homophobia, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Grief, and Sexual harassment