Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

Tomboyland: Essays by Melissa Faliveno

6 reviews

evaniem's review against another edition

inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault

readerette's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

4.0

The essay/chapter entitled Motherland feels like a must read for anyone who's ever had children or not had children, or will/will not someday have children. It's a beautiful exploration of how complicated the decision is. As the author says, "...all choices are a sacrifice."

I found this an intriguing rumination on identity and how it develops, though as a Midwesterner, I don't agree with most of the generalizations the author makes about Midwesterners. I do believe those generalizations are how people outside the Midwest often think of us, but I don't believe they're factually true or that most Midwesterners consider them true. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Biphobia, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Alcoholism, Grief, Self harm, Sexual content, and Alcohol

Minor: Death, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Infidelity, Rape, Blood, Body shaming, Cursing, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Abortion, Colonisation, and Suicide attempt

ashlyn's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Alcoholism, Suicide attempt, Sexual assault, Rape, Pregnancy, and Biphobia

Minor: Drug use, Gun violence, Abortion, and Eating disorder

theinfinitebookcase's review

challenging hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

This book was everything I wanted and more. Faliveno touches on many more topics than I had expected - sexuality, gender, womanhood, motherhood, depression and self harm, sexual assault, our relationship with our body, our relationship with our homeland - and I enjoyed the highs and lows, the funny moments and the dark ones as well. Faliveno’s complicated relationship with gender and sexuality mirror my own, which was a comfort to read as I’d never found it expressed in the same way before.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Homophobia, and Sexism

Moderate: Sexual assault and Self harm

teri_reads's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm

Moderate: Rape and Sexual assault

mariahsnerdynotes's review

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

A moving collection of essays that deals with trauma, found family, identity, sexuality, feelings on grief, being a teenager, and much more. While the writing comes off as slightly disjointed at times, it doesn't take long to realize that the narrative is woven together by the theme that connects it all. The essays focus in on what being from Wisconsin means to the author, her life in New York City, her childhood, her flaws, and the complicated web of feelings and thoughts that life truly is. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Addiction, Alcoholism, Biphobia, and Grief

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Abortion