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courtney_scott1025's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, and Violence
Moderate: Racial slurs, Racism, and Suicidal thoughts
ginnybarns's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Murder, and Gaslighting
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, and Incest
bashsbooks's review against another edition
5.0
Also, I read the audiobooks, which Gurba narrated herself. She gives the intended inflection of each word, even getting choked up at one point. And there is a little bell noise to coincide with line breaks, which I enjoyed.
My favorite essays were: "Locas," "Mitote," "Slimed," "Itchy," and the three-part, titular "Creep."
Graphic: Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, and Gaslighting
Moderate: Bullying, Infidelity, Stalking, Murder, and Cultural appropriation
Minor: Biphobia, Child abuse, Child death, Pedophilia, and Religious bigotry
30something_reads's review against another edition
4.5
and chilling
and it made me angry
and it made me sad.
Consider me ready to pick up everything else Gurba has written.
Graphic: Misogyny, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual violence, and Sexual harassment
Moderate: Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Racial slurs, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Colonisation, and Classism
yajairat's review against another edition
5.0
some quotes, more on the informative side:
"Chief William H. Parker ruled the LAPD from 1950 to 1966. His involvement in Dragnet, the show that created the template for all future copaganda, made Parker the country's most influential policeman. Parker used the show to "publicize his views on law and order" and advisers scrutinized scripts to make sure that Dragnet portrayed LAPD officers as "ethical, terse, efficient, and white.."
"California doesn't deserve its reputation as a progressive state. If it were so damn progressive, it wouldn't rely on jails and prisons to take care of its problems." - also thought of NY while reading this
"Mom's half siblings, the children of la otra mujer, attended the funeral too. Offspring who'd been denying the existence of one another for decades were now gathered around the husk of the man who'd made them and hurt them."
"Tyrants revel in the chasm separating the literate from the illiterate. Hoarding literacy gives them the power to define, defraud, and shatter."
"Some people in my family mention my grandfather's misogyny as if it were a charming yet harmless quirk. Something to giggle about... When a man leaves his wife and children to subsist on water for seven days, it's the opposite of charming."
"What irks is [Joan] Didion's racial grammar. A conceptual metaphor developed by the sociologist Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, racial grammar is what gives racism its elemental quality, the sense that its natural, no different from earth, wind, or fire." - very interesting essay about Joan Didion!
"Some men will shatter the mirror you hold up to them. Next, they'll take the shards and stick them in you."
"When asked how he knows that a trauma patient has recovered, Dr. Jack Saul, director of the International Trauma Studies Program, answers that a survivor's ability to exercise spontaneity is his sign. Spontaneity happens when avoiding death or injury stops being a survivor's primary concern."
"People who hurt people can be charmers. It works in their favor. Charm disarms victims and make us feel special. Chosen... Those who believe that if they encountered someone like Q they'd immediately sense danger delude themselves. It's not like you're on your first, second, third, fourth, or fifth date with a Q when they announce, "Pass the salt, you dog-faced cunt, or I'll slice you from neck to stomach!". That part comes once they, with the help of others, have lured you into the fog."
Graphic: Domestic abuse and Rape
Moderate: Death, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Sexual harassment
caseythereader's review against another edition
4.25
- CREEP is a collection of essays that are part memoir, part historical exploration, all righteous rage.
- Gurba is a master at channeling her experiences into sentences that cut right to the heart of the problem and of the reader.
- This book is a tough read. But if you're up for it, it's a truly excellent excoriation of the many overlapping systems that make space for predators to thrive.
Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Homophobia, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, and Deportation