Reviews tagging 'Suicide attempt'

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

12 reviews

eekennel's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia and Violence

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

buttermellow's review

dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, Transphobia, Physical abuse, and Racism

ttorisaurus's review

emotional reflective medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Self harm, Sexual assault, Transphobia, Rape, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Murder, and Suicide attempt

aehmyers's review

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced

5.0

A collection of short essays and poems that give voice to the pain and joy of trans-womaness, of a Chinese woman, of a person still searching for love and hope at the end of the world. It is a critique of kindness towards the queer community, and a hope for what it could be.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Suicide and Suicide attempt

bi_n_large's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Transphobia, and Self harm

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Racism, Murder, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Hate crime, and Gun violence

Minor: Sexual assault, Physical abuse, and Rape

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