Reviews tagging 'Sexual harassment'

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

9 reviews

maggieparedesauthor's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Sexual violence, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Eating disorder, Grief, Fatphobia, Toxic relationship, Racism, Rape, Homophobia, Dysphoria, Gaslighting, Medical content, Self harm, Sexual assault, Mental illness, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, and Vomit

chris_reads's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Ableism, Body shaming, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Medical content and Vomit

Minor: Forced institutionalization, Injury/injury detail, Racism, and Sexual harassment

mandi4886's review against another edition

emotional reflective fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Rape, Body shaming, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Eating disorder, Injury/injury detail, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Classism, Cursing, Biphobia, and Ableism

Minor: Abortion, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Medical trauma, Lesbophobia, Infidelity, Homophobia, and Hate crime

itszosia's review

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and Body shaming

Moderate: Racism, Misogyny, and Sexism

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

philosopiscis's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Fatphobia, Mental illness, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, and Eating disorder

jessy_03's review

challenging emotional sad tense medium-paced

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Mental illness, Sexual harassment, Body shaming, Racism, Sexual violence, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual assault, Eating disorder, and Physical abuse

tklassy's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

I don't have too much to say about this book but that it touched me deeply. Many of Gay's experiences are closely aligned to things I have had to go through in my own life, which at time made for really tough reading. I cried along the way, but also found myself laughing - Gay's narration was charismatic, touching, simple but laden with so man layers of meaning. The ambiguity of some of her thoughts, and how she wrote, was realistically complicated and spoke to my own experiences beyond words. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Racial slurs, Sexual harassment, and Vomit

hannahahn's review

hopeful sad

4.0

roxane is one of the strongest people i have read about. her ability to be so vulnerable in this kind of format is astounding as well as a huge service to so many people who might feel lost or lonely in their own bodies and/or trauma. her writing was gripping yet smooth, easy to read; i devoured this in 2 days. Hunger is heartbreaking, healing, and hopeful all at once.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Body shaming, Racism, Dysphoria, and Eating disorder