Reviews tagging 'Homophobia'

A History of My Brief Body by Billy-Ray Belcourt

45 reviews

amyjo25's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Racism, and Suicide

Minor: Sexual content

savvylit's review

emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

"To my mind, joy is a constitutive part of the emotional rhetoric and comportment of those against whom the present swells at an annihilating pace. With joy, we breach the haze of suffering that denies us creativity and literature. Joy is art is an ethics of resistance."

This brilliant book blends memoir with honest declarations about memory, indigenous & queer identity, and colonial systems. Belcourt's experience as a poet is instantly clear in the ways that he describes his life and the world around him. Several sentences stopped me in my tracks and made me have to pause to digest. Things like "sometimes I'm a shoreline the water of memory drags its palm across" or "has anyone ever managed not to mould the body into an archive of their own degradation?" I'll keep thinking about A History of My Brief Body for a long, long time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Grief, and Violence

scmiller's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

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

autisticbucky's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Racism, and Death

Moderate: Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual content, and Suicide

anaheeta's review against another edition

emotional inspiring sad tense fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mass/school shootings, Suicide, Gun violence, Homophobia, Violence, Racism, Murder, Transphobia, Sexual harassment, Hate crime, and Colonisation

nicholesreadingnook's review

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Mass/school shootings, Colonisation, and Suicide

spookyaz's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Sexual content, Homophobia, Genocide, Mass/school shootings, Mental illness, Murder, Hate crime, Suicide, Police brutality, and Racism

kbeucler's review against another edition

3.5

Another book of essays, Belcourt examines the unique experience of being First Nations and queer in Canada. His essays are not only personal essays, but bring in theory and his deep reflections. Belcourt is also a poet and his style is interesting, both lyrical and academic as he tries to puzzle out how to live in this world.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Homophobia, Colonisation, and Transphobia

homestylereads's review

emotional informative sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia and Racism

Moderate: Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Mass/school shootings

maggiefae's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Grief, Homophobia, Mass/school shootings, Racism, Sexual content, Suicide, Transphobia, Colonisation, and Violence