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neeavenla's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
medium-paced
5.0
trevoryan's review against another edition
5.0
This is an extraordinary collection that I cannot recommend enough. Especially to men. We need to know what women go through, fellas. Here's a very easy way to hear a bunch of stories about the awful experiences women have in regards to sexual violence.
And I was delighted to find so many creators that were new to me. All but one of the contributors I had not heard of before. And this book is just full of incredible work.
Check it out!
And I was delighted to find so many creators that were new to me. All but one of the contributors I had not heard of before. And this book is just full of incredible work.
Check it out!
buckleburyfairie's review against another edition
5.0
This book is one of the most important books I've ever read. It spoke to me deeply during a very dark time in my life, and gave me so much consolation to know I wasn't alone.
amanda_y8s's review against another edition
4.0
Great anthology of the all-too-common experience of sexual violence. In the introduction, Roxane Gay talks about the importance of visual communication for people to make sense of things beyond language, and it’s clear many have used this as a means to do just that. Lots of familiar and new voices here, I am especially looking forward to seeing more work from Trinidad Escobar and Sabba Khan.
nymeria123's review against another edition
3.0
Important stories, but given how short each story was (only a couple pages) I was left wanting more depth. Or maybe short stories just aren’t my thing.
brisotkovsky's review against another edition
4.0
A little repetitive and some of the pages were hard to read because they were all black and white but also very cluttered. Still really good and important. It was like the graphic novel version of not that bad!! Loved it!!
amandamarie793's review against another edition
4.0
A hard but necessary read, some of the comics get graphic, others stay on the surface. Beautifully drawn and written, no one story stood out to me, as they all have their own uniqueness.
zoethydear1850's review against another edition
4.0
4.5 stars!!
An incredibly important read that you need to take bites of so as not to choke. This struck such a chord in me, as someone who has experienced sexual violence. We are not alone.
An incredibly important read that you need to take bites of so as not to choke. This struck such a chord in me, as someone who has experienced sexual violence. We are not alone.
stevia333k's review against another edition
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
tense
It's painful & triggering. It felt like it took me 3 years to read & finish this book. It is informative about different ways sexual violence happens.
Basically this is a "speak bitterness" type testimony, so it's not going to be entirely anti-oppression. So for instance there was a part about arab men that felt awkward for me to read a white settler USAmerican woman because USA's government literally pinkwashed the colonization of brown women by white men as feminism. The other part is that there were contributers who had various spellings of women in their bios that implied "difference feminism", which is strong on gender policing.
Lastly, i get that trauma is stored in the body, but the amount of naked traumatized people in this book suggests to me an internalized victim-blaming, thinking that (C)SA happens because of the victims' bodies instead of the assaulter being an assaulter. Like more innocently, there are a lot of cis women who get assaulted because their assaulters make a lot of bullshit apologia about blue balls, and then the victims repeat those health myths. But it's like, I just hope that now that power has been drawn that we can recover from that internalized victim-blaming, internalized gender policing, internalized belief that the sexes are different.
Basically this is a "speak bitterness" type testimony, so it's not going to be entirely anti-oppression. So for instance there was a part about arab men that felt awkward for me to read a white settler USAmerican woman because USA's government literally pinkwashed the colonization of brown women by white men as feminism. The other part is that there were contributers who had various spellings of women in their bios that implied "difference feminism", which is strong on gender policing.
Lastly, i get that trauma is stored in the body, but the amount of naked traumatized people in this book suggests to me an internalized victim-blaming, thinking that (C)SA happens because of the victims' bodies instead of the assaulter being an assaulter. Like more innocently, there are a lot of cis women who get assaulted because their assaulters make a lot of bullshit apologia about blue balls, and then the victims repeat those health myths. But it's like, I just hope that now that power has been drawn that we can recover from that internalized victim-blaming, internalized gender policing, internalized belief that the sexes are different.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Hate crime, Alcohol, Incest, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Rape, Blood, Body horror, Body shaming, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Bullying, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Islamophobia, Lesbophobia, Stalking, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, Transphobia, Violence, and Suicidal thoughts