Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot, by Mikki Kendall

6 reviews

mads_jpg's review

challenging dark informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

A fantastic book on a complex but necessary subject. I learnt a lot from this book and it made me reflect on how I can be a better accomplice to marginalized women. The book was mostly accessible but my only gripe is that I sometimes found the writing style hard to understand, not sure if that's the result of how complicated the subject is or the way it was edited. Otherwise, an amazing book that everyone should read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Eating disorder, Sexism, Violence, Classism, Gun violence, Misogyny, Police brutality, and Racism

Moderate: Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Body shaming, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Abortion, Confinement, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Deportation, Medical content, Pregnancy, Ableism, Medical trauma, Cultural appropriation, Slavery, and Colonisation

rieviolet's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

At times I found the book a bit meandering and more hard to follow (but I recognize that it is mostly on me and my lacking of knowledge/expertise). For example, some of the references flew right over my head, given that they are mostly based on USA's history, society and culture/media and that I am not 100% familiar with them. 

What I appreciated the most was the intersectionality, the broad focus on all aspects of social justice relating to race, class, gender and sexuality. 

Without a doubt it was an important and eye-opening reading experience, that really made me understand the necessity to keep learning and trying to translate what I learn into effective action and behaviour.

Real feminism (if such a thing can be defined) isn't going to be found in replicating racist, transphobic, homophobic, ableist, or classit norms. But we are all human, all flawed in our ways, and perhaps most important, none of us are immune to the environment  that surrounds us. We are part of the society that 
we are fighting to change, and we cannot absolve ourselves of our role in it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Classism, Gun violence, Transphobia, Toxic relationship, Miscarriage, Blood, Hate crime, Xenophobia, Sexism, Domestic abuse, Pregnancy, Medical trauma, and Racism

Moderate: Eating disorder, Violence, Bullying, Sexual harassment, Child abuse, Ableism, Rape, Murder, Slavery, Sexual violence, Child death, Death, Cultural appropriation, Fatphobia, Kidnapping, and Drug use

Minor: Pedophilia, Trafficking, Stalking, Mass/school shootings, Mental illness, Homophobia, Suicide, Islamophobia, and Abortion

ellab93's review

emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

Minor: Abortion, Physical abuse, Medical trauma, Police brutality, Hate crime, Domestic abuse, Drug use, and Child death

ashleycmms's review

informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Abortion, Blood, Body shaming, Bullying, Death, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Infertility, Medical content, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Police brutality, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexism, Sexual violence, Slavery, Toxic relationship, and Violence

biblioleah's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Ableism, Addiction, Bullying, Child abuse, Blood, Child death, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Medical trauma, Medical content, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, and Transphobia

babayagaofficial's review

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence and Racism

Moderate: Ableism, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Mass/school shootings, Medical content, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Police brutality, Rape, Sexism, and Xenophobia

Minor: Cancer, Child death, Death, and Homophobia