Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

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

18 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

xfallenxnightx's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

Found this book to be very informative, eye opening, and helpful for reflection on my own feminism. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Misogyny

Moderate: Sexual violence, Body shaming, Eating disorder, and Mental illness

minty_3's review

challenging emotional informative medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Abortion, Mental illness, Classism, and Eating disorder

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

bootsmom3's review

challenging informative fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Eating disorder, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Racism, Rape, Sexual violence, Gun violence, Pregnancy, and Sexual assault

Minor: Abortion, Classism, Domestic abuse, Alcoholism, and Death of parent

jeanniea's review

challenging informative inspiring medium-paced

4.0

Really dense. Lots of good info!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Sexism, Hate crime, Murder, Ableism, and Classism

Minor: Sexual assault, Murder, Gun violence, Drug use, Ableism, Domestic abuse, Grief, Abortion, Addiction, Police brutality, Mental illness, and Kidnapping

whitej18's review

informative reflective medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Sexual assault, Racism, Racial slurs, Mental illness, Gun violence, Suicide attempt, and Rape

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Addiction, Pregnancy, Gun violence, Genocide, Xenophobia, Toxic relationship, and Alcoholism

Minor: Eating disorder, Abandonment, Drug abuse, Transphobia, and Toxic relationship

anniereads221's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Abortion, Biphobia, Miscarriage, Violence, Classism, Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Medical content, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Transphobia

meghanelizabeth's review

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abortion, Gun violence, Mental illness, and Domestic abuse

voxelbee's review

challenging emotional informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Gun violence, Misogyny, Racism, and Sexism

Minor: Ableism, Abortion, Addiction, Cultural appropriation, Xenophobia, Violence, Transphobia, Suicide, Slavery, Sexual assault, Rape, Religious bigotry, Pregnancy, Police brutality, Miscarriage, Mental illness, Mass/school shootings, Homophobia, Hate crime, and Drug abuse