Reviews tagging 'Chronic illness'

The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

8 reviews

mar's review

challenging emotional informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

a much heavier read than i anticipated, but it does an incredible job unpacking the racism (as well as the sexism, transphobia, ableism) within science & the scientific community - both historically and presently - and the profound damage it continues to cause; i think anyone with an interest in science would benefit from reading this book

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Colonisation, Rape, Racism, and Sexism

Moderate: Ableism, Chronic illness, Transphobia, and Police brutality

Minor: Self harm and Homophobia

alsoapples's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Rape, and Racism

Moderate: Colonisation, Ableism, Car accident, Chronic illness, Classism, Gaslighting, Misogyny, and Slavery

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Antisemitism, Cancer, and Deportation

solenodon's review

informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Rape, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Sexism, Racial slurs, Transphobia, Child abuse, Slavery, Police brutality, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, Colonisation, Grief, and Alcohol

Minor: Chronic illness, Antisemitism, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

talonsontypewriters's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Classism, Colonisation, Sexism, Misogyny, and Transphobia

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Slavery, Car accident, Antisemitism, Kidnapping, Sexual violence, Police brutality, Death, Murder, Medical content, Medical trauma, Ableism, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Chronic illness, Panic attacks/disorders, War, Child death, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Racial slurs, Cancer, and Suicide

Colorism. Eugenics, mentions of forced sterilization. Climate change. Rape and assault are discussed and frankly but not graphically described; a chapter centered around rape includes a content warning in the preface and is able to be skipped.

seemz's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Racism, and Slavery

Minor: Chronic illness

sarah984's review against another edition

challenging reflective medium-paced

4.0

The early chapters of this book lay out the author’s interest in physics with a palpable enthusiasm, while the later chapters discuss the ways that the dominant culture manifests in academia and the physics "community" that work to dim that enthusiasm. I hadn't really considered the ways that science as a discipline and idea are socially constructed so there's lots to think about.

(I did dock a star because I found the chapter on gender a bit reductive - I hate the narrative that nonbinary people exist because they are the only ones who object to traditional gender roles and this chapter skirts pretty close to that. Overall though a great read.)

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Slavery, Ableism, Antisemitism, Colonisation, Medical content, Racial slurs, Classism, Misogyny, Police brutality, Racism, Rape, and Transphobia

Minor: Chronic illness, Cancer, Child abuse, Self harm, and Suicidal thoughts

yaelm's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Chronic illness, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, and Transphobia

bookiecharm's review against another edition

challenging reflective

5.0

This will take me time to process but it’s everything I want out of a nonfiction science/memoir book. I will probably wait til the paperback comes out to purchase and reread. All of the references and the thoughtfulness in the writing make me want to reread it even though I dislike physics. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Rape, Racial slurs, and Colonisation

Minor: Chronic illness and Injury/Injury detail