Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

45 reviews

teeclecticreads's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad

5.0

I feel like I was given a long, tight hug and told that things will be ok 🥹

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Grief, Suicide, Ableism, and Death

Moderate: Sexual assault, Rape, Racism, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, and Homophobia

Minor: Transphobia

mallyj_20's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Medical trauma, Ableism, Self harm, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Incest, and Mental illness

howdyhoward's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative

5.0

Highly recommend the audiobook! Leah narrates their words with so much emotion and passion.

I found myself become very engaged during part 2 and that engagement continued to the end of the book. There are a few essays that deal specifically with suicide that were really triggering and hard to read but also beautiful and important and sad. This book is a great resource, as are most/all of the individual essays. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Ableism

pattytims's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism

Moderate: Suicide and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Police brutality, Child abuse, Sexual violence, and Murder

novella42's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring medium-paced

5.0

This book was too powerful for me to be able to give a coherent review right after finishing it. I will say that as a white disabled queer woman, I am immensely grateful to learn these stories, struggles, and wisdom from QTBIPOC disabled community leaders and visionaries. I think this is the most important book I have read in years.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Ableism, Child abuse, Classism, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Suicide attempt, Body shaming, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Toxic friendship, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Grief, and Homophobia

Moderate: Sexual content, Vomit, Sexual assault, Religious bigotry, Incest, Misogyny, Terminal illness, Physical abuse, Transphobia, and Police brutality

keatynbergsten's review

challenging emotional informative reflective slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

honeyvoiced's review against another edition

challenging informative

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Ableism, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Child abuse, Suicide, and Incest

Minor: Forced institutionalization, Rape, and Panic attacks/disorders

wall0w's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

Essential reading. Some may say it isn't a comfortable introduction to Disability Justice but I think it's vital to experience that discomfort. As with learning more in any area of justice, putting current comfort levels over learning leads to further injustice, and (especially with something as temporary as being abled) is an enormous to everyone, currently disabled or not

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, and Suicidal thoughts

tlaynejones's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

This is the best book I’ve read this year. The writing is deeply compassionate thoughtful and challenging. I am grateful to have the opportunity to question and expand many of my long held understandings of the world and of myself. Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha shared her experiences, vulnerability, strengths, and desires with a warm generous relatability. I wish everyone would read this. Highly recommended.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism and Chronic illness

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Body shaming, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Dysphoria, Grief, Incest, Medical content, Medical trauma, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Transphobia, and Toxic relationship

aharv9's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

So good! A book that thankfully goes beyond disability 101. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism

Moderate: Suicide