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thymiantea's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Genocide, Homophobia, Racism, Suicide, Mass/school shootings, and Colonisation
Moderate: Death, Hate crime, Sexism, Transphobia, Violence, Police brutality, and Grief
scmiller's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Body shaming, Genocide, Homophobia, Racism, Grief, and Colonisation
Moderate: Child abuse, Hate crime, Mental illness, Misogyny, Medical content, Medical trauma, Cultural appropriation, Abandonment, and Classism
anaheeta's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Racism, Suicide, Transphobia, Violence, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Sexual harassment, and Colonisation
spookyaz's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Racism, Sexual content, Suicide, Police brutality, Mass/school shootings, and Murder
jessie_h's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Homophobia, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Colonisation
Moderate: Sexual content, Grief, and Cultural appropriation
Minor: Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Violence, and Murder
readingwithkaitlyn's review against another edition
3.0
Graphic: Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, and Sexual harassment
Moderate: Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Colonisation
Minor: Infidelity, Rape, and Transphobia
strrygo's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Hate crime, Homophobia, Racism, and Colonisation
moranguinhos's review against another edition
4.5
Moderate: Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Racism, Suicide, Transphobia, Police brutality, Grief, Murder, and Colonisation
robotswithpersonality's review
It is heartening to see Belcourt push towards a future of creative joy, while consistently elucidating all the ways in which the Canada of the past and present hampers the possibility of such a life experience for Indigenous people.
Discussions of life as a queer man of colour likewise indicates the striving for love and the social and structural impediments to finding it.
It is enjoyable to see a writer frequently touch on a sentence or two written by others, you get this sense of collaborative inspiration, of sharing ideas, when otherwise I worry that writing is isolating, in the search for a 'pure' inspiration not to be intermingled with words that might be claimed by another.
I think it's because I usually see it in research/journalistic non-fiction, seeing citation/quotes in a memoir provides hope of a full life, reading and discussion between fellow writers.
As with other non-fiction personal works written by Black, Indigenous and people of colour I have encountered as a white reader, I am reminded that reading alone will not suffice. Action must be taken, so that the liveable future so many minorities have long been fighting for and creating art to encourage into existence may become a reality, via the restructure of systems, (as well as hearts and minds), long incapable and seemingly uncaring, of meeting all citizens' needs.
Moderate: Hate crime, Homophobia, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide
wetdirtreads's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Racism, Suicide, Mass/school shootings, and Colonisation
Moderate: Eating disorder, Transphobia, Police brutality, and Medical trauma