Reviews tagging 'Death'

I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World by Kai Cheng Thom

9 reviews

chelsearednecksrising's review

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Addiction, Death, Mental illness, Dysphoria, Homophobia, Suicide, Sexual assault, and Transphobia

moonyreadsbystarlight's review

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective

4.0

This collection of essays and poetry is about queer community, how we love and what we can do to love better and be the key to each other's thriving (not just survival). She lays bare the ways in which people fail to love each other fully, gives us a look into ways people do love and continue to love, and (most importantly) asks us to imagine a world where we do embrace love and to think about how we can get there. 

There were a couple of pieces that I wish she had expanded on more or made certain points more clear, but there were so many amazing essays in here! I'm definitely excited to check out her other works.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, Suicide, and Transphobia

Moderate: Death, Violence, and Homophobia

solenodon's review

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

I want everyone to read this book tbh

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship

Moderate: Transphobia, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Violence, Sexual violence, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Death, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, and Grief

Minor: Sexual harassment, Infertility, Drug use, Alcohol, Colonisation, Medical content, Stalking, Homophobia, Dysphoria, Forced institutionalization, and Emotional abuse

thewordsdevourer's review

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

simply incredible. i hope we choose love is a rare feat, jam-packed w/ brutal honesty, startling vulnerability, tentative love and hope, and reflective rumination on mental illness and rarely examined topics such as queer community and its internal issues, today's social justice landscape, and ofc trans identity and community, seen through the author's complex lens as a trans woman of color. once in a blue moon, a book comes along, parts the veil in front of my eyes, and completely changes the way i view things. this is such a book and it's a marvel.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Transphobia, Violence, Mental illness, and Suicide

Moderate: Physical abuse, Hate crime, Death, Murder, Classism, Racism, and Misogyny

Minor: Suicide attempt, Stalking, Colonisation, Sexual violence, and Sexual harassment

bobsacoolword's review

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

Reading the reviews for this book makes me realize I don't think anyone really knows who the target audience is and a lot of reviewers who are represented in the marginalized communities mentioned in the books have criticized the content of the books. I don't know if I feel comfortable giving a numerical review because both this book and the reviews have reminded me how much harder I need to work at educating myself on these topics. I am giving this book 4 stars because I found it informative and insightful, but also because it resonated with some of my own experiences. Ordinarily, I'd give any book that gave me as much as it did 5 stars, but I want to acknowledge that other reviewers have mentioned that some of the arguments made missed the mark for them.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Homophobia, Mental illness, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Transphobia, Toxic relationship, and Violence

This book covers a lot of tough topics. I tried to pull from some of the most common content warning on reviews for the book, but I would definitely be prepared for things that can be tough to talk about.

dytiscusfriend's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

Kai Cheng Thom is remarkable in her ability to write incisively nuanced takes. Her writing is grounding, healing, painful, and needed. Her generosity, humility, and unapologetic love (especially for herself) is extraordinary and a salve in this era of twitter hot takes.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Addiction, Body shaming, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Hate crime, Misogyny, Murder, Police brutality, Racism, Rape, Religious bigotry, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Transphobia, and Xenophobia

alayamorning's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, and Transphobia

skudiklier's review

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

I started and finished this book on the same day, and basically couldn't put it down. I found it so engaging, helpful, thoughtful, and brilliant. Every time I thought the author might fall into a tired trope, she showed how she was really challenging it. I love how she makes clear what the core values of her life and the social justice movement are, and how her critiques have to do with the way the movement operates and forms relationships rather than with those values themselves. I really would recommend this book to anyone who is queer or a leftist, or interested in either of those things. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Death, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Grief and Toxic relationship

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Forced institutionalization, and Medical content

rigbees's review

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.25

Kai Cheng Tom thoughtfully discusses a number of issues affecting letting LGBTQIA+ communities. I found a lot of my experiences seen by these essays and her analysis to be intelligent and empathetic. Deep reading for those wondering how we build sustaining communities.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Homophobia, Transphobia, Sexual assault, and Hate crime

Moderate: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Grief, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Police brutality, and Rape