Reviews tagging 'Homophobia'

What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence by Michele Filgate

6 reviews

caribbeangirlreading's review

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

3.0

Some of the essays were hard to read. Some were heart warming. A few were mediocre. Overall, though I found this to be a very cathartic read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Homophobia, Suicide attempt, Child abuse, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Blood, Mental illness, and Adult/minor relationship

kat_c_h's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

3.75

TW: this book does talk a lot about childhood abuse and generational abuse. Both are pretty hard to read at times. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Sexual assault, Child abuse, and Rape

its_j's review

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful reflective relaxing fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Suicide attempt, Alcohol, and Body shaming

Moderate: Mental illness, Death of parent, Homophobia, Fatphobia, Eating disorder, and Drug use

shoohoob's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective medium-paced

4.5

I really liked this. It made me reflect on my own relationship with my mom, and how to be okay with where it is. The last essay in particular really hit home for me. I would love to see another volume of this with a few younger authors (more millennial or gen-z) because I sometimes found it hard to relate to the older authors. Overall, great read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

hayden_reads's review

dark emotional medium-paced

5.0

AHHH IT WAS SO GOOD!!! These authors are amazing at conveying intense, complex feelings in a way I haven’t seen anywhere else. The way they can analyze relationships is AHHHH and I just want to read more like this!!! 10/10 would recommend (but it is kind of heavy at some points with some TWs)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Sexual assault

Minor: Homophobia

vlntnmz's review

emotional funny reflective medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Ableism

Minor: Body shaming, Eating disorder, Forced institutionalization, Fatphobia, and Homophobia