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A History of My Brief Body by Billy-Ray Belcourt

41 reviews

anaheeta's review against another edition

emotional inspiring sad tense fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mass/school shootings, Suicide, Gun violence, Homophobia, Violence, Racism, Murder, Transphobia, Sexual harassment, Hate crime, and Colonisation

nicholesreadingnook's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Mass/school shootings, Colonisation, and Suicide

spookyaz's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Sexual content, Homophobia, Genocide, Mass/school shootings, Mental illness, Murder, Hate crime, Suicide, Police brutality, and Racism

kbeucler's review against another edition

3.5

Another book of essays, Belcourt examines the unique experience of being First Nations and queer in Canada. His essays are not only personal essays, but bring in theory and his deep reflections. Belcourt is also a poet and his style is interesting, both lyrical and academic as he tries to puzzle out how to live in this world.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Homophobia, Colonisation, and Transphobia

homestylereads's review against another edition

emotional informative sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia and Racism

Moderate: Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Mass/school shootings

maggiefae's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Grief, Homophobia, Mass/school shootings, Racism, Sexual content, Suicide, Transphobia, Colonisation, and Violence

sydapel's review against another edition

challenging reflective sad slow-paced

4.75

I feel totally unmoored by this book. The writing is profoundly and intimately reflective, almost volatile in the pace it takes, swinging from rage to sorrow to longing to adoration so quickly. Belcourt speaks so profoundly about queerness, indigenous oppression in the Americas and his personal journey as a writer in these spaces. This is one of those books that requires slow reading and forces you to take a step back. The subject matter is difficult at times, but the number of quotes that will stay with me make it worth it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Colonisation

Moderate: Homophobia, Mass/school shootings, and Transphobia

Minor: Suicide and Suicide attempt

dominic_t's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

This book is really great and thought-provoking. His prose is beautiful and dense. I found some of it hard to wrap my head around, and I wish I had read this with other people so I could discuss it and understand more of it. He shows really clearly that the colonization of Canada has never stopped, even though white settlers pretend that colonization is all in the past. He discusses Indigenous trauma, resistance, and joy, and his writing is beautiful. This isn't an easy read, but it is worth it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Racism, Homophobia, Transphobia, Suicide, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Murder

Trauma, residential schools

jessie_h's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

This is one of those essay collections that I will stick be thinking about for a while. There is a lot in this collection to unpack and it was so beautifully written. Belcourt leans on his poetic background to tell parts of his story via essays and poems which results in an emotional sucker punch of a memoir. He touches on topics like queerness, indigeneity, sexuality, queer/NDN joy and hope, and colonialism and does so with a vulnerability and honesty. I want to read more from this author in the future.

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Content Warnings

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

emotional reflective slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

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