Reviews tagging 'Racism'

The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur

39 reviews

pa0la_reads's review

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective relaxing slow-paced

5.0

This is Rupi's take on her mom's experience as an immigrant. Really impacted me because as someone who's second language is English I really felt like I could relate to the pages on that book. I think its the book I've related to most in my life so there's that. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Toxic relationship, Racism, Self harm, Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, and Deadnaming

thebetterstory's review

hopeful inspiring fast-paced

2.75

These poems are simple and palatable, and depending on what you ask from your poetry you may find that a good thing. Many of the shorter ones border on trite, but it helps that the entire collection comes across as wholeheartedly sincere rather than manipulative. The rawest poems, and therefore unsurprisingly my favourites, were the ones where the author processed her rape.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault

Minor: Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, and Police brutality

oriana095's review

emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Rape, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Sexual content and Racism

Minor: Child death, Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Murder, Abortion, and Body shaming

lulusreads's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

3.75

“i am the first woman in my lineage with freedom of choice. to craft her future whichever way i choose. say what is on my mind when i want to. without the whip of the lash. there are hundreds of firsts i am thankful for. that my mother and her mother and her mother did not have the privilege of feeling. what an honor”

I felt so seen from Rupi’s collection to her mother. 

The book as a whole had lots of honest & relatable lines from a broken soul to true love to family to finding self confidence. Let the sunshine on your flowers 🌻 

the only thing I don’t like from modern poetry or at least this author is when one sentence that isn’t that profound takes up a whole page “the road to changing the world is never-ending” doesn’t need an entire blank page. Some of the pages didn’t even have a cute drawing to makeup for the lack of content 😕

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Content Warnings

Minor: Toxic friendship, Blood, Sexual assault, Grief, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Racism, Religious bigotry, Misogyny, Eating disorder, Sexism, Classism, Body shaming, and Xenophobia

anna_17793's review

emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Rape

Moderate: Sexual content and Racism

lizacorn's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence

Moderate: Racism and Child death

Minor: Pregnancy and Grief

juliaisnotalright's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

2.0

Poetry about SA, Immigration, love, selflove, motherhood and being a woman.
In general I enjoy reading about these things but the poetry was sometimes just one sentence and I just didn’t get it yk.
Like there was stuff I learned but in the end I didn’t really enjoy reading it.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Sexual assault, and Sexism

majakrmer's review

inspiring lighthearted reflective

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual assault, Child death, Racism, Grief, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual violence, Self harm, Colonisation, Abortion, and Sexual content

nookling's review

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Racism and Rape

viviundworte's review

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Rape, Grief, and Sexism

Moderate: Abortion, Child death, and Body shaming

Minor: Sexual content and Xenophobia