Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur

6 reviews

michaelion's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective tense

4.5

she's JUST like me and its not even funny. i hope she having a good day. i hope she's having an amazing day every day.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Police brutality, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Ableism, Domestic abuse, Fatphobia, Miscarriage, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Cancer, Medical trauma, and War

cadybooks's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Abortion

leslie_overbookedsocialworker's review

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

kshertz's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring tense medium-paced

4.0

Wow. I thought I knew her story but I knew nothing. The things this woman has been through. It’s eye opening. It’s horrific. It’s important. I hope everyone gets a chance to read her story and takes her advice to heart. She learned so much. She has much that we can learn from her. This is an essential memoir. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

careinthelibrary's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault and Police brutality

Minor: Confinement, Gun violence, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

attempted gang rape

moonyreadsbystarlight's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

 In this book, Assata goes between two times in her life. One, beginning with her time in the hospital after being shot and framed for murder up and another, starting from her early childhood. You see the time she spent in a myriad of prisons in inhumane conditions and going through multiple trials for crimes she did not commit as well as her experience growing up and eventually being in leftist spaces, including the Black Panthers as it is being infiltrated .

So many parts of this nearly read like she was describing the world today -- the police, but also the missteps in organizing for social justice. This is difficult to read, particularly the beginning descriptions of her time in the hospital monitored by white supremacists cops and being in solitary after, but it is absolutely essential reading.

There were a lot of details in the writing that takes this story to another level literarily. She ends some of the chapters with poems that are relevant to the events in the chapter. And the very intentional choices with spelling and grammar, I have a lot of feelings about as well. Many people take language and its rules at face value without questioning it -- Assata uses the language to question and reveal aspects of toxic system and assumption about self and others 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail