Reviews tagging 'Racism'

Lord of the Butterflies by Andrea Gibson

5 reviews

niliii's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gun violence, Racism, Mass/school shootings, and Homophobia

Minor: Sexual assault

rgbees's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide attempt, Chronic illness, Drug use, Mass/school shootings, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Drug abuse

Minor: Police brutality, Racism, Hate crime, Gun violence, Sexual content, and Homophobia

solliereads's review

dark emotional informative inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing sad fast-paced

5.0

Gibson's poetry is beautiful, provocative, and evoking of so many emotions that I didn't even realize that I had, or pay enough attention to. Reading their work felt like having a long, cathartic cry and then picking myself back up again from the ground to face the sun. Andrea writes with brutal honest the horrors of America - they effortlessly portray issues like racism, feminism that fights for equality but not equality for all women, school shootings, grief, and homophobia through a haunting lens that will leave you thinking for a long time. I've written down some of my favourite passages below, but if I included them all, I would be here forever.

 Your life at the prom where you'll run home in a snowstorm, chucking your last pair of heels in a snowbank, realising you are the only boy you ever wanted to tear your dress off for .

 Like we could actually get comfortable being the uneaten animal in the lap of the man making lampshades out of human skin.

I pose you beside our bloodline, our grandfather throwing his liver through the kitchen window, our grandmother on her knees sweeping up the glass. I zoom in to the pieces she didn't find. I find them in the sole of your shoes on your worst day of junior high.

Even life is like funeral practice: half of us already dead to our families before we die.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Mass/school shootings, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Racism, Grief, Religious bigotry, and Drug abuse

jazzlioness's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Xenophobia, Lesbophobia, Eating disorder, Violence, Mental illness, Racism, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, War, and Chronic illness

hickorynut's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective tense fast-paced

3.75

Incredibly written and powerful. Lots of TWs but very worth reading for those who can. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Genocide, Antisemitism, Murder, Gun violence, and Mass/school shootings

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Racism, Self harm, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and War