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Drawing Power: Women's Stories of Sexual Violence, Harassment, and Survival by Diane Noomin, Roxane Gay
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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
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