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Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement by Tarana Burke

11 reviews

emmehooks's review

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Pedophilia, and Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Racism and Misogyny

nad_books623's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Misogyny, and Sexual assault

curlyhairedbear's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Heartbreaking beautiful book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Rape, Violence, and Racism

Moderate: Miscarriage and Misogyny

readandfindout's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.75

Style/writing: 4.5 stars
Themes: 5 stars
Perspective: 4.5 stars

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Physical abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, Toxic relationship, Grief, Sexual assault, Body shaming, Gaslighting, Rape, Misogyny, Child abuse, Violence, Sexual violence, Domestic abuse, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Gun violence and Emotional abuse

camsara99's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Sexual content, Pregnancy, Misogyny, Gaslighting, Violence, Racism, Domestic abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Body shaming, Adult/minor relationship, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Pedophilia, Toxic friendship, and Sexism

Moderate: Incest

mscalls's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective tense fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Death of parent, Drug use, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Death, Grief, Pregnancy, and Sexual harassment

poisoned_icecream's review

challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Child abuse, Misogyny, Domestic abuse, and Racism

blovessummer's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Wow. Tarana Burke is an amazing human being and this book is important, heartfelt and inspiring. Not an easy read due to the topic but extremely well written and powerful and important. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Child abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexism, Sexual violence, Sexual content, and Violence

toofondofbooks_'s review

dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

Wow. Just WOW. This memoir by Tarana Burke, who is the founder of the #MeToo movement, has written a memoir that belongs on your shelf next to the works of Maya Angelou. This memoir reminded me of "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings" in its raw honesty and fantastic writing. I listened to the audiobook, and Burke's narration is heartbreaking and a joy to listen to at the same time. Sections that I thought were particularly interesting were Burke's stories about her complicated and sometimes fraught relationship with her mother and the section where she describes her discovery of the work of Maya Angelou and how she fell in love with it and saw herself in it. I love that Tarana Burke never pretends to have been a perfect person and is committed to writing a real memoir with her highs, lows, wins and losses with honesty. If you have ever been interested in this woman and / or how the Me Too movement came to be, you should pick this up

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Racism, Misogyny, Drug abuse, Drug use, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Domestic abuse, and Pedophilia

Moderate: Medical content and Incest

Minor: Child death, Miscarriage, Gaslighting, and Pregnancy

amandas_bookshelf's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Rape, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Pedophilia, Toxic friendship, Sexism, Racism, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Misogyny, Incest, Gaslighting, and Emotional abuse