Reviews tagging 'Sexual violence'

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

9 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

jadepfaefflin's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Sexual violence, and Child abuse

Minor: Racial slurs

hyperself's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Lesbophobia, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Physical abuse, Ableism, Child abuse, Homophobia, Classism, Slavery, Trafficking, Chronic illness, and Racism

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

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

alexxcp's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Colonisation, Racism, Sexism, Transphobia, Violence, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Ableism, Grief, Homophobia, Medical content, Child abuse, Racial slurs, and Classism

achingallover's review against another edition

dark hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.5

really appreciated the foreward and preface and afterword, as well as the additional notes Eli Clare added in 2009, so would recommend the 2015 edition

definitely a book i will reread, and have annotated heavily. really important analysis of intersections, of complicated and layered questions, poking at the uncomfortable bits to discover why 

"at the jagged edge where self-hatred meets pride"
"in the end i mean deeply honest multi issue politics that will make home possible"
"when do we celebrate, when do we howl with rage, when do we witness and mourn?"

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Homophobia, Classism, Pedophilia, Rape, Child abuse, Ableism, Sexual violence, Genocide, Body shaming, Physical abuse, and Forced institutionalization