Reviews tagging 'Slavery'

The Disordered Cosmos by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

15 reviews

mar's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

a much heavier read than i anticipated, but it does an incredible job unpacking the racism (as well as the sexism, transphobia, ableism) within science & the scientific community - both historically and presently - and the profound damage it continues to cause; i think anyone with an interest in science would benefit from reading this book

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Colonisation, Rape, Racism, and Sexism

Moderate: Ableism, Chronic illness, Transphobia, and Police brutality

Minor: Self harm and Homophobia

alsoapples's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Rape, and Racism

Moderate: Colonisation, Ableism, Car accident, Chronic illness, Classism, Gaslighting, Misogyny, and Slavery

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Antisemitism, Cancer, and Deportation

kk_gotit_goinon's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

Everyone in academia should read this book. It calls out the experience of so many of us that most people refuse to acknowledge: racism, classism, ableism. All of these are still extremely prominent even in places that claim to be "committed to DEI" even in California where I live and work. 

Dr. Prescod-Weinstein lays everything out so well but without talking down to you or coming off like she is right and you are wrong. She doesn't claim to have all the answers or to know how to solve everything while still pointing out the very real issues that have to be addressed. 

Oh and the physics is pretty interesting but easy to understand (for a neuroscientist at least haha!) 

A must read for a academics and folks who want to try to make the world a better place. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Ableism, Racism, Slavery, Colonisation, Classism, Sexual violence, Mental illness, Cultural appropriation, Racial slurs, Sexism, and Misogyny

Minor: Rape

rachbake's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Medical trauma, Racism, Homophobia, Transphobia, Slavery, Rape, Sexual assault, and Colonisation

solenodon's review against another edition

informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Rape, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Sexism, Racial slurs, Transphobia, Child abuse, Slavery, Police brutality, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, Colonisation, Grief, and Alcohol

Minor: Chronic illness, Antisemitism, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

northernbiblio's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Racism, and Slavery

ameeth's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.75

A luminary and necessary journey. This book may start with how the cosmos appears to work, but more importantly, it expands into a guide and call for how we should restructure our way in the cosmos. Prescod-Weinstein shares with unflinching clarity how Black and Indigenous feminist theory not only applies to the science of astro/physics, but is indeed necessary for its ethical future. I found it deeply inspiring, while devastatingly realistic, and that is rare to find.

P.S. Fair warning, the physics section in first 1/4 of book moves fast! But at least not with a density in equations.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape

Moderate: Sexual assault and Slavery

talonsontypewriters's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Classism, Colonisation, Sexism, Misogyny, and Transphobia

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Slavery, Car accident, Antisemitism, Kidnapping, Sexual violence, Police brutality, Death, Murder, Medical content, Medical trauma, Ableism, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Chronic illness, Panic attacks/disorders, War, Child death, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Racial slurs, Cancer, and Suicide

Colorism. Eugenics, mentions of forced sterilization. Climate change. Rape and assault are discussed and frankly but not graphically described; a chapter centered around rape includes a content warning in the preface and is able to be skipped.

collins1129's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Rape, Classism, Homophobia, Racism, Car accident, Colonisation, Lesbophobia, Misogyny, Sexism, Slavery, and Transphobia

seemz's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Racism, and Slavery

Minor: Chronic illness