Reviews tagging 'Cultural appropriation'

A History of My Brief Body by Billy-Ray Belcourt

3 reviews

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

marabdelmageed's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

Truly one of the best pieces of work I have ever read. I will reread this, and then reread it again -- I know that I still have so much to gain, so much to learn, so much to appreciate from this work.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Colonisation, Cultural appropriation, Fatphobia, Medical trauma, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Homophobia, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, and Suicide

deadpoetsam's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Homophobia, Grief, Colonisation, Murder, Toxic relationship, Cultural appropriation, Racism, and Sexual content

Moderate: Gun violence, Hate crime, Religious bigotry, Child death, Suicide attempt, Mass/school shootings, Police brutality, Sexism, and Suicide

Minor: Death