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Love After the End: Two-Spirit Utopias & Dystopias by Joshua Whitehead

1 review

maeverose's review against another edition

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3.5

This is a very beautiful and  needed collection of stories by queer indigenous authors. As is expected with short story collections, they were hit or miss for me. I’m including my ratings and content warnings for each story in this review so if you don’t want to see the content warnings feel free to skip it.

A note on my ratings: I rate books/stories on my personal enjoyment level, not on any objective writing or storytelling factors. (1= hated it, 2= not for me, 3= just fine, 4= really liked it, 5= loved it)

• Abacus by Nathan Adler (3⭐️)

Cw: sexual content (very minor)

• History of The New World by Adam Garnet Jones (4⭐️)

Cw: sexual content, slavery, murder, racism, xenophobia, violence, injury, colonization, abandonment, pregnancy

• The Ark of the Turtle’s Back by Jaye Simpson (3.5⭐️)

Cw: transphobia, sexual content, slavery, infertility (sort of), grief, medical content, colonization, pregnancy/baby talk

• How To Survive The Apocalypse For Native Girls by Kai Minosh Pyle (2⭐️)

There’s nothing wrong with this story it’s just not for me, largely because of the narrator’s voice. They sounded very young and naive for 16 and it irked me.

Cw: transphobia, f slur, child abuse, fire, murder, minor mention of war

• Andwànikàdjigan by Gabriel Castilloux Calderon (5⭐️)

This story made me feel so much and so strongly in such a short amount of pages. wow

Cw: murder, death of loved ones, grief, fire, descriptions of scars similar to self harm scars (but not self harm), descriptions of cutting for non self harm reasons, gun violence, colonization, blood, confinement, death of a parent

• Story for a Bottle by Darcy Little Badger (2.5⭐️)

Cw: kidnapping, confinement, animal harm, child abuse

• Seed Children by Mari Kurisato (2⭐️)

Cw: blood, death, cannibalism, injury, gun violence, religious bigotry, violence, murder, vomit

• Nameless by Nazbah Tom (3.5⭐️)

Cw: war, murder, alcohol, addiction, vomit

• Eloise by David A. Robertson (4⭐️)

I don’t know how I feel about this one. I really liked the writing style and the concepts

but I’m confused why Emma wanted to forget Cassie. Unless I missed it they never explained that and it felt like something that should’ve been explained.

Cw: grief, depression, cancer

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Grief, Murder, Violence, Death, Abandonment, Transphobia, and Child abuse

Moderate: Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Blood, Sexual content, Colonisation, Religious bigotry, Alcohol, Confinement, and Vomit

Minor: Xenophobia, Infertility, Pregnancy, Drug use, War, Slavery, Racism, Addiction, and Cannibalism

A heavy theme of climate crisis in a lot of the stories