Reviews tagging 'Domestic abuse'

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body, by Roxane Gay

12 reviews

zombiezami's review against another edition

dark reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Body shaming, Medical trauma, Vomit, Rape, Fatphobia, Medical content, Injury/injury detail, Sexual violence, Eating disorder, Misogyny, Mental illness, and Sexism

Moderate: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Grief, Toxic friendship, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Racism, Gaslighting, Classism, Infidelity, and Chronic illness

Minor: Xenophobia

ellaxiao's review

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Medical content, Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Rape

foreverinastory's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

Brutally honest, this memoir scraped both me and Roxane to the bone.

CWs: Rape, sexual assault, sexual violence, trauma, eating disorder, vomit, fatphobia, body shaming, racism, emotional abuse, toxic relationship. Moderate: Medical content, medical trauma, medical fatphobia, domestic abuse, sexual content, misogyny, sexism, injury/injury detail, mental illness, self harm, ableism, suicidal thoughts. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Eating disorder, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Racism, Vomit, Toxic relationship, Rape, Sexual assault, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Medical trauma, Domestic abuse, Sexual content, Medical content, Misogyny, Sexism, Injury/injury detail, Self harm, Ableism, and Suicidal thoughts

thebankofbooks's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Eating disorder, Racism, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Addiction, Rape, Sexual harassment, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Medical trauma, and Physical abuse

savannahtrice's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

This was so real and as a person who's struggled with disordered eating this really hit home.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Rape, Sexual assault, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Racism and Misogyny

anger566's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.75

I really enjoyed this memoir! I listened to the audiobook and I feel like it made the experience so much better. I think a lot of people (especially young women) can relate to Gay's analysis of her own life and how weight gain and self-image can impact us while we're young and influence our relationships well into adulthood. Although this memoir mainly centered around Gay's relationship with food, hunger, and self-image I appreciated the parts about living as a black woman in the Midwest and feeling out of place in academia because of your race and size. Definitely read! (or listen lol)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Eating disorder, and Fatphobia

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Body shaming, Emotional abuse, and Injury/injury detail

Minor: Alcohol

Spoiler

Author was sexually assaulted as a child, she talks about this in detail. The author describes being body shamed because of her weight/size. The memoir centers around her relationship with food and her weight so there she recounts many fat-shaming memories. The author describes her past experience with bulimia in detail. Briefly mentions how she was emotionally and physically abused by past partners. Author mentions buying beer on her 21st birthday. The author describes her broken ankle.

lesbegays's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

as someone who is fat, has been fat my whole life (except for a few years of flirting with starvation in high school), and will almost certainly be fat for the rest of my life, this was painful to read. i am what roxane gay calls “lane bryant fat.” i can shop in stores with plus size sections, sometimes even in straight sizes if i’m lucky and the XL is sized very generously. i am more than a foot shorter than gay and don’t stand out, don’t take up as much space. i don’t know what it’s like to struggle to find any clothes at all, to worry about breaking or not fitting into furniture. but i do avoid going to the doctor because i know they’ll just tell me to lose weight, no matter the problem. i did have my eating disorder ignored by psychiatric professionals because i had starved my body from an unacceptable size down to an acceptable one. i have been teased and ignored and shamed. being reminded of those experiences hurts. the most painful part of this, though, was to hear the ways in which gay struggles so much with her body. loving my body has become an act of necessity and survival, and it hurts to see someone so successful and so much older than me still struggle. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Medical trauma, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Vomit

dohertys17's review

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

Spoiler

  Liked:
- Opened my eyes to the prejudices I hold against overweight people (even if I am considered overweight myself) and specifically morbidly obese people.
- Liked how the chapters were only a couple of pages long at the most - very easy to pop in and out of
- The part at the end where she discusses contacting her rapist got me very emotional
- Made me realize how cruel we are to obese people and how our world is not set up to accommodate them, even if we claim that there is an obesity "epidemic"
- Made me realize how the language we use to describe obese people is incredibly hurtful and inhumane - super morbid, epidemic, etc.
- I am glad that the author realized she is deeply loved while in the hospital
- I felt that while my story is very different from hers, quite a few ideas truly resonated with me.
- Made me think more about sharing stories of sexual abuse and how it can be so hard for people to open up about this, yet somehow certain public situations can encourage people to speak up about their experience and trauma

Disliked:
- Was not what I was expecting. Was expecting a person with an eating disorder (anorexia, etc.) or someone who is very restrictive with food
- Felt like it could have been shorter, while there are some really great insights and reflection I feel that somethings were quite repeatitive

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Toxic relationship

tyler_b's review

dark emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Rape, and Domestic abuse

sydney_keeps_reading's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Toxic relationship, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Rape, Racism, Misogyny, Miscarriage, Medical content, Medical trauma, Self harm, Fatphobia, Eating disorder, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Body shaming