Reviews tagging 'Forced institutionalization'

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

5 reviews

libraryoflanelle's review against another edition

4.0

I read this one exclusively via Audio and would like to re-read it in tandem with the physical book so I can absorb it more fully. I will definitely be writing an updated review when I get my hands on a physical copy.

I really enjoyed hearing Eli reflect on these topics as things were in 1999. Seeing the parallels, the differences and on many occasions the heart-breaking lack of positive change truly added a level of discussion to these topics that I did not anticipate.

I have added content/trigger warnings to my review but I want to point out that Eli does mention CSA he experienced in childhood on multiple occasions, at times in moderate detail.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Child abuse, and Ableism

Minor: Bullying, Body shaming, Racial slurs, Homophobia, Colonisation, Dysphoria, Forced institutionalization, Chronic illness, Lesbophobia, Medical content, and Transphobia

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

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

ceramicat's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Classism, Child abuse, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual assault, Ableism, Domestic abuse, Forced institutionalization, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Racism, and Sexism

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