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scmiller's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Colonisation, Homophobia, Racism, Grief, Body shaming, and Genocide
Moderate: Mental illness, Abandonment, Classism, Child abuse, Hate crime, Medical content, Misogyny, Cultural appropriation, and Medical trauma
anaheeta's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Mass/school shootings, Suicide, Gun violence, Homophobia, Violence, Racism, Murder, Transphobia, Sexual harassment, Hate crime, and Colonisation
spookyaz's review
3.5
Graphic: Gun violence, Sexual content, Homophobia, Genocide, Mass/school shootings, Mental illness, Murder, Hate crime, Suicide, Police brutality, and Racism
jessie_h's review
4.0
Graphic: Colonisation, Homophobia, Suicide, Racism, and Suicidal thoughts
Moderate: Grief, Sexual content, and Cultural appropriation
Minor: Violence, Hate crime, Gun violence, Murder, and Genocide
readingwithkaitlyn's review
3.0
Graphic: Suicide, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Racism, and Sexual assault
Moderate: Homophobia, Mental illness, Medical content, Grief, Death, Hate crime, Genocide, Colonisation, Gun violence, Murder, Blood, Toxic relationship, Medical trauma, Violence, Suicide attempt, and Police brutality
Minor: Infidelity, Rape, and Transphobia
strrygo's review
4.75
Graphic: Colonisation, Racism, Homophobia, and Hate crime
moranguinhos's review
4.5
Moderate: Transphobia, Colonisation, Gun violence, Murder, Police brutality, Homophobia, Grief, Hate crime, Racism, and Suicide
robotswithpersonality's review against another edition
It is heartening to see Belcourt push towards a future of creative joy, while consistently elucidating all the ways in which the Canada of the past and present hampers the possibility of such a life experience for Indigenous people.
Discussions of life as a queer man of colour likewise indicates the striving for love and the social and structural impediments to finding it.
It is enjoyable to see a writer frequently touch on a sentence or two written by others, you get this sense of collaborative inspiration, of sharing ideas, when otherwise I worry that writing is isolating, in the search for a 'pure' inspiration not to be intermingled with words that might be claimed by another.
I think it's because I usually see it in research/journalistic non-fiction, seeing citation/quotes in a memoir provides hope of a full life, reading and discussion between fellow writers.
As with other non-fiction personal works written by Black, Indigenous and people of colour I have encountered as a white reader, I am reminded that reading alone will not suffice. Action must be taken, so that the liveable future so many minorities have long been fighting for and creating art to encourage into existence may become a reality, via the restructure of systems, (as well as hearts and minds), long incapable and seemingly uncaring, of meeting all citizens' needs.
Moderate: Homophobia, Racism, Hate crime, Suicide, and Suicidal thoughts
wetdirtreads's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Colonisation, Mass/school shootings, Gun violence, Racism, Hate crime, Homophobia, and Suicide
Moderate: Eating disorder, Medical trauma, Police brutality, and Transphobia
lizlikesfrogs's review against another edition
3.75
Graphic: Transphobia, Genocide, Homophobia, Gaslighting, Medical trauma, Hate crime, and Colonisation