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bashsbooks's review
challenging
emotional
sad
tense
slow-paced
5.0
Thom's work is a must-read for white queers and cis queers everywhere. Tracking her complex relationships to race, gender, and her family, she does not flinch away from her experiences - fetishization, rape, abuse among them. She laments the ways in with the Queer Movement has failed her, and people like her, how we still have people who fall through the cracks in our communities, places where we are not intersectional. Some of these poems are tough to read, but they're all important.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child abuse, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual violence, Transphobia, Violence, Xenophobia, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Body shaming, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Blood, Suicide attempt, and Toxic friendship
tinyjude's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
I usually find it hard to enjoy and connect with modern poetry's format and style, but there are many incredible, raw, heart-wrecking poems here that I enjoyed and hurt me in ways poetry hasn't in such a long time.
The poems are explicit in nature and denounce/reflect about various topics, mainly the reality of woc and trans women of colour, colonialism, racism, xenophobia, homophobia and transphobia, sexual assault and violence (particularly against asian gay boys, trans women and asian trans women), white feminism, cultural memory... it isn't an easy read and it will definitely make your stomach churn at many points, but it is so worth it.
For many more poetry by cis and trans women of colour.
The poems are explicit in nature and denounce/reflect about various topics, mainly the reality of woc and trans women of colour, colonialism, racism, xenophobia, homophobia and transphobia, sexual assault and violence (particularly against asian gay boys, trans women and asian trans women), white feminism, cultural memory... it isn't an easy read and it will definitely make your stomach churn at many points, but it is so worth it.
For many more poetry by cis and trans women of colour.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Lesbophobia, Sexual harassment, and Dysphoria