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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
dominic_t's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Colonisation, Racism, Homophobia, Transphobia, Suicide, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt
Moderate: Murder
Trauma, residential schoolsjessie_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
honeyvoiced's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Colonisation, Racism, and Sexual content
Minor: Mass/school shootings and Murder
maeverose's review against another edition
Here are some quotes that I liked though:
“In the museum of political depression, in its tidied halls, books of the sort I want to write are banned, for they are against the world that birthed the writer. Books that emerge from a banned way of thinking, that pry open space to live otherwise in an uninhabitable world, lie open in hospitals and university dorms and community libraries but rarely in an institution governed by a pessimism of the future and a romance of the present.”
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Colonisation, Murder, Racism, and Police brutality
Minor: Homophobia and Infidelity
biab00's review against another edition
4.25
The governing thesis of my book would be that we aren’t noble people and therefore the fact of our living is something to be ashamed of. The question I’d ask: What might it look like for NDNs to refuse life in the wake of all that’s happened to us in a country in which we’re social experiments before all else?
I choose this quote to put in the review, but to be fair there are so many beautiful ones that it was hard to choose one.
This book is so poetic and aaaaa I don't even have words to describe it.
If you are a fan of Siken and Ocean Vuong I definitely recommend this one.
Graphic: Homophobia, Colonisation, Murder, and Suicide
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