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tenderbench's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Death, Sexual content, Colonisation, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, and Gun violence
maggiefae's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Genocide, Grief, Homophobia, Mass/school shootings, Racism, Sexual content, Suicide, Transphobia, Colonisation, and Violence
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
ecn's review against another edition
Graphic: Fatphobia, Toxic relationship, Colonisation, Grief, Genocide, and Violence
balfies's review against another edition
4.5
Belcourt uses language to charter unnavigable oceans of queer and NDN experience within a capitalist white supremacist heteropatriarchy.
Feel like I'm a bug on a forest floor with my mouth open in nutrient rich dirt, there's so much going on in this. If you're a fan of Ocean Vuong or Ellen van Neerven this is a must.
Graphic: Genocide, Colonisation, Violence, Sexual content, Suicide, Racism, Murder, Grief, and Homophobia
moranguinhos's review against another edition
4.5
Moderate: Transphobia, Colonisation, Gun violence, Murder, Police brutality, Homophobia, Grief, Hate crime, Racism, and Suicide
h0llyr00th's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Transphobia, Racism, Suicide, and Grief
williamgideon's review against another edition
4.5
This book deeply touched me, and there are passages that made me cry. Some of the essays are worthy of 5 stars, but others didn't hit as hard. My favorites were 'Please keep loving: Reflections on unlivability', 'Robert' and 'To hang our grief up to dry'.
Moderate: Genocide, Suicide, Racism, Suicide attempt, Grief, and Murder
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