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Freiheit ist ein ständiger Kampf by Angela Y. Davis, Sven Wunderlich

21 reviews

soniajoy98's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Hate crime, Racism, and Colonisation

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, and Police brutality

Minor: Torture, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, War, and Classism

fromthefoxhole's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

So I listened to the audiobook, and let me say up front: Angela Davis could read me her grocery list and I'd enjoy it. Every word is measured, pronunciations were clearly studied in advance, and her timbre is warm and authoritative. 

4.5 - half star removed mostly because this has multiple chapters that are speeches she has given at various conferences and events. In a few cases I've either watched the speech on YouTube or read it as a one off, and some of the material overlaps in a way that makes it slightly less impactful overall. I think it could also have used a final chapter that acted as a final summarization/call to further education at the very least. 

Despite this slight grievance, I think this book does well in its undertaking to relate struggle across location, gender, race, religion, nationality, or whatever divides humanity might face. Davis utilizes the wealth of own-voices books, movements across history, and anecdotes from her own past to present to the reader a framework within which we can find our foothold as activists. She speaks on trans and queer liberation, the occupation of Palestine, the ongoing struggle of Black people and people of color in the US. She briefly touches on disability rights and mental health institutionalization as well. She never shies away from the fact that there might be more points of intersectionality than previously understood, and I think that openness serves the reader well in providing external context to her works. 

Anyway, I love Angela Davis. I've added so many books from her references here to my own reading list, and I'm excited to get cracking on those.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mental illness, Racism, Sexism, Sexual violence, Slavery, Transphobia, Police brutality, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, Classism, and Deportation

caelinsullivan's review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Sexual violence, and Colonisation

dragongirl271's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Gun violence, Sexual violence, Violence, Police brutality, and War

ofbooksandechos's review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Colonisation

Moderate: Genocide, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, and Classism

Minor: Sexual violence, Slavery, and Transphobia

breandthebooks's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Genocide, Racism, Sexual violence, Transphobia, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Islamophobia, and Deportation

peggy_racham's review against another edition

5.0

Reading a book written in 2015, with speeches from 2013, while its all still relative in 2023 is a bit jarring. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Transphobia, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Islamophobia, Colonisation, War, Classism, and Deportation

mattyvreads's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

Angela Davis is a gift. Wholly informative, and not a wasted word. This is such a powerful read, and provides much needed context and perspective on the struggle of the Palestinian people and the globalization of the Black liberation movement. She emphasizes the importance and impact of intersectionality, not just as individuals, but in a larger sense, the intersectionality of struggles.

Angela Davis writes, “just as we say ‘never again’ with respect to the facism that produced the Holocaust, we should say ‘never again’ with respect to apartheid in South Africa and in the Southern U.S.. That means, first and foremost, that we will have to expand and deepen our solidarity with the people of Palestine, people of all genders and sexualities, people inside and outside prison walls, people inside and outside of the apartheid wall.”

Each interview and speech enclosed in this collection is as important and poignant as the last.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Genocide, Homophobia, Misogyny, Racism, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Transphobia, Violence, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Murder, and War

remimicha's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Transphobia, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Murder, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, and Deportation

lauraspeechly's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring medium-paced

4.25

Davis’ puts forward her ideas in ways that are easy to understand. I think that this is great book to read if you want an introduction intro prison abolitionism. Her ideas about terrorism really stuck with me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Racism, and Xenophobia

Minor: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and War