Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Wound from the Mouth of a Wound by torrin a. greathouse

5 reviews

buttermellow's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Ableism, Body shaming, and Bullying

Moderate: Medical content, Abandonment, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Alcoholism and Eating disorder

hello_lovely13's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Hate crime, and Transphobia

Moderate: Eating disorder, Homophobia, Emotional abuse, and Rape

Minor: Self harm

elliotvanz's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

3.0

Visceral, raw, and deeply personal. Greathouse's poetry is full of striking and arresting imagery. The poems in this collection trace over the themes of violence and the body. Particularly a disabled body, and a trans body. This collection is a defiant scream into the darkness and I'm glad I read it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body shaming, Deadnaming, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Blood, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Violence, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Dysphoria, Rape, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Physical abuse, and Sexual harassment

jayisreading's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

What a stunning poetry collection. greathouse reflects on queerness (particularly transness) and disability, as well as the intersection of the two, to give a glimpse of the violence and injustices these communities face. These poems are sensitive, much like the emotional and physical wounds carried by queer, disabled people. Some wounds remain open and raw, while others have healed but are ever-present, and greathouse does a phenomenal job to address the complexities of carrying such wounds, gracefully and fiercely addressing the pain, power, and resilience that come with being disabled and queer. Much to think about long after finishing these poems.

Some favorites: “Essay Fragment: Medical Model of Disability,” “Ode to the First Time I Wore a Dress & My Mother Did Not Flinch,” “The Queer Trans Girl Writes Her Estranged Mother a Letter About the Word Faggot & It Is the First Word to Burn,” “An Ugly Poem,” “Phlebotomy, as Told by the Skin,” “Still Life with Bedsores,” “On Using the Wo|men’s Bathroom,” and “Ars Poetica or Sonnet to Be Written Across My Chest & Read in a Mirror, Beginning with a Line from Kimiko Hahn”

Read for the Sealey Challenge.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Hate crime, Medical content, and Transphobia

Moderate: Death, Eating disorder, Rape, Emotional abuse, and Homophobia

a_sterling's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia

Moderate: Ableism, Homophobia, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Chronic illness, and Hate crime