Reviews tagging 'Incest'

Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation by Eli Clare

10 reviews

precise's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective slow-paced

4.25

This book was somewhat memoir, somewhat poetry. Exile in the title refers to class as much as anything else - what I took was, if you're a rural queer person from an un-accepting community, you are exiled both in your rural community of origin and in your urban life, in different ways. I liked the digression about disability and the history of 'freak shows'. I was surprised by how environmentalist it was - he writes in depth about having grown up in a dying logging town - not unpleasant but not what I expected from the title. The edition I read had some footnotes from 2009 - would love a new edition with footnotes from the 2020s as well :) 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Incest, Bullying, Rape, Injury/Injury detail, Body shaming, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Sexual violence, Drug use, and Sexual assault

Content warnings largely relate to the author's personal history - not described in great detail, but sexual abuse from his father as well as bullying from classmates is mentioned a few times. There is also brief mention of logging related injuries in his hometown.

ez_heath's review against another edition

informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Ableism, Child abuse, Incest, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Sexual content, and Torture

mxbenjaminrose's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Ableism, and Child abuse

Moderate: Sexual violence, Racism, Sexual assault, Transphobia, Homophobia, Medical trauma, Incest, Classism, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Colonisation, and Forced institutionalization

Minor: Body shaming

thedisabledreader's review against another edition

4.5

It was great but definitely could have gone more in depth with more analysis and such. Also a solid two chapters were extremely boring 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Child abuse, Incest, Classism, and Rape

Minor: Racial slurs

razzberry_pi's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

descriptions in the first half of the book were so poetic and really spoke to me while being interspersed with really solid theory. second half of the book focuses more on an examination of historical forces impact modern experiences and the role of personal histories on impacting our identities

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Child abuse, and Rape

Moderate: Homophobia, Transphobia, Medical trauma, Lesbophobia, Medical content, and Incest

Minor: Alcoholism, Racism, Animal death, and Racial slurs

if more detailed descriptions of childhood sexual abuse are a trigger, they are isolated to the second half if the book other than brief mentions

violetbooklover's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Transphobia, Sexism, Pedophilia, Medical trauma, Incest, Genocide, Homophobia, Colonisation, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Ableism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Rape, and Child abuse

Rape, violence, ableism, racism, abuse, homophobia, transphobia, childhood sexual abuse, violence against disabled people

bexpainter's review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Incest, Rape, and Child abuse

raalux's review against another edition

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Rape, Sexual violence, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Homophobia and Ableism

faaankie's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Rape, Violence, and Incest

isabelmabel49's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

Eli Clare is a master of discussing topics we generally like to separate for palatability and interweaving them to demonstrate how very little CAN be separated in this society. They discuss difficult experiences, aspects of activism that make them frustrated, and continually reminds us all to check our social position (specifically what privileges we are awarded based on that position). They open one's eyes to elements of being disabled, being queer, being working-class, and more that would likely go unconsidered by those outside of each demographic, ultimately providing a more purposefully curious and aware worldview. Plus, they have got some banging lines in here that will make you have to stare out the window and contemplate your existence.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Incest, Pedophilia, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Homophobia and Medical trauma