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anaheeta's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Mass/school shootings, Suicide, Gun violence, Homophobia, Violence, Racism, Murder, Transphobia, Sexual harassment, Hate crime, and Colonisation
spookyaz's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Gun violence, Sexual content, Homophobia, Genocide, Mass/school shootings, Mental illness, Murder, Hate crime, Suicide, Police brutality, and Racism
jessie_h's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Colonisation, Homophobia, Suicide, Racism, and Suicidal thoughts
Moderate: Grief, Sexual content, and Cultural appropriation
Minor: Violence, Hate crime, Gun violence, Murder, and Genocide
readingwithkaitlyn's review against another edition
3.0
Graphic: Suicide, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Racism, and Sexual assault
Moderate: Homophobia, Mental illness, Medical content, Grief, Death, Hate crime, Genocide, Colonisation, Gun violence, Murder, Blood, Toxic relationship, Medical trauma, Violence, Suicide attempt, and Police brutality
Minor: Infidelity, Rape, and Transphobia
strrygo's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Colonisation, Racism, Homophobia, and Hate crime
moranguinhos's review against another edition
4.5
Moderate: Transphobia, Colonisation, Gun violence, Murder, Police brutality, Homophobia, Grief, Hate crime, Racism, and Suicide
robotswithpersonality's review against another edition
It is heartening to see Belcourt push towards a future of creative joy, while consistently elucidating all the ways in which the Canada of the past and present hampers the possibility of such a life experience for Indigenous people.
Discussions of life as a queer man of colour likewise indicates the striving for love and the social and structural impediments to finding it.
It is enjoyable to see a writer frequently touch on a sentence or two written by others, you get this sense of collaborative inspiration, of sharing ideas, when otherwise I worry that writing is isolating, in the search for a 'pure' inspiration not to be intermingled with words that might be claimed by another.
I think it's because I usually see it in research/journalistic non-fiction, seeing citation/quotes in a memoir provides hope of a full life, reading and discussion between fellow writers.
As with other non-fiction personal works written by Black, Indigenous and people of colour I have encountered as a white reader, I am reminded that reading alone will not suffice. Action must be taken, so that the liveable future so many minorities have long been fighting for and creating art to encourage into existence may become a reality, via the restructure of systems, (as well as hearts and minds), long incapable and seemingly uncaring, of meeting all citizens' needs.
Moderate: Homophobia, Racism, Hate crime, Suicide, and Suicidal thoughts
wetdirtreads's review
5.0
Graphic: Colonisation, Mass/school shootings, Gun violence, Racism, Hate crime, Homophobia, and Suicide
Moderate: Eating disorder, Medical trauma, Police brutality, and Transphobia
lizlikesfrogs's review against another edition
3.75
Graphic: Transphobia, Genocide, Homophobia, Gaslighting, Medical trauma, Hate crime, and Colonisation
pawpaw's review against another edition
4.0
Don't get me wrong: sometimes I rolled my eyes because of how much he used the word "ontological," and he can come off as pretentious, but so be it. With everything that he's been forced to deal with, with everything he's achieved? He's allowed to come off as a bit arrogant at times.
If you're triggered by suicide, sexual assault, murder, and the institutionalized destruction of Indigenous peoples, please tread carefully. That being said, this book is vital, and well beyond worth it.
Please remember that there are many other Indigenous and queer voices. If you choose to listen to this one, don't stop there.
Graphic: Suicide attempt, Suicide, Sexual content, Colonisation, Suicidal thoughts, Hate crime, and Genocide
Moderate: Homophobia, Sexism, Racism, Murder, Cursing, and Grief
Minor: Sexual assault