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am3y0's review
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
4.0
Trigger Warning: subjects mentioned include imagery of sexual assault, racism, misogynoir, apartheid, and family trauma. However, if you are looking to read and hear from voices that are marginalized yet fiercely determined to regain power from these challenges, read on!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child abuse, Colonisation, Domestic abuse, Miscarriage, Toxic relationship, Violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Incest, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Sexual violence, Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Racism, Rape, and Sexual assault
Moderate: Sexual content, Gaslighting, Grief, Mental illness, Colonisation, Racism, and Religious bigotry
Discussion of the negative social effects of historic apartheid in South Africachloe_hazel's review
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
slow-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Lesbophobia, Sexual assault, Xenophobia, Rape, Racism, Sexual violence, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Homophobia, and Miscarriage
megansoetaert's review
fast-paced
5.0
this has got to be my new favorite poetry collection. Putuma puts all her emotions out there in her writing and it sings and shouts at you. it’s an amazing piece of work! i’d love to listen to the audiobook version & want to read everything else she’s written. this collection explores Blackness, being Black in south africa, queerness, grief, violence, growing up… it was so rich.
my favorite poems were no easter sunday for queers, graduation, water, mountain, and on black solidarity
my favorite poems were no easter sunday for queers, graduation, water, mountain, and on black solidarity
Content Warnings
Graphic: Rape, Racism, Death, and Murder
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