Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

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

21 reviews

aharper's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Toxic relationship, Sexism, Miscarriage, Gun violence, Hate crime, Abortion, and Misogyny

amandamarieger's review

challenging hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

This is a tough read at times, but so incredibly necessary. White feminism often makes itself out to be feminism as a whole, but there are a lot of missing pieces that this book starts to highlight. Read it! 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Violence, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Xenophobia, Hate crime, Classism, Colonisation, Murder, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Abortion, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Deportation, Racism, Eating disorder, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Slavery, Toxic relationship, and Transphobia

horizonous's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Toxic relationship, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Gun violence, Police brutality, Blood, Eating disorder, Miscarriage, Sexual violence, and Transphobia

Minor: Infidelity, Sexism, Ableism, Drug abuse, Child abuse, and Sexual harassment

greatexpectations77's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

I want to carry this around like a holy book. I want to write a year-long monthly book club guide that goes through this book one chapter at a time. Like. god. wow. I feel like you could learn something new every time you read it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Racism, Sexism, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Gun violence, Infertility, Abortion, Miscarriage, Addiction, Drug use, Eating disorder, and Domestic abuse

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

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

adrianajimenez's review

informative reflective medium-paced

one of the best feminist books i've read so far for sure. concepts and ideas were explained wonderfully and even though i was already familiar with what was talked about in this book, i was still able to form deeper thoughts about them and feel like i was learning. honestly, it's just such a great read whether you are knowledgeable in the subject or not, so i definitely recommend!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage

Moderate: Ableism, Abortion, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Gun violence, Hate crime, Medical trauma, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Infertility, Sexual harassment, and War

tilo's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

(I listened to the audiobook version.)
There wery many observations, ideas, and suggestions in this book that I found helpful for my own mindset, even when they might not have been completely new to me. It is important to note that this book does require you to be familiar with feminism, otherwise it is not as accessible. This is due to the fact that Kendall directs her words mainly to white mainstream feminists. I think anyone who considers themself a feminist should look into the ideas of this work and reflect upon them.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Ableism, Abortion, Addiction, Body shaming, Bullying, Colonisation, Cultural appropriation, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Hate crime, Gun violence, Homophobia, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Racism, Xenophobia, Violence, Transphobia, Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Slavery, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Rape, Pregnancy, Murder, Medical trauma, and Mental illness

samarawylie's review

challenging informative inspiring slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Violence, Transphobia, Toxic relationship, Slavery, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Rape, Racism, Racial slurs, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Miscarriage, Mental illness, Mass/school shootings, Medical content, Misogyny, Islamophobia, Homophobia, Gun violence, Hate crime, Eating disorder, Cultural appropriation, Child abuse, and Alcoholism

ok7a's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Sexism

Moderate: Eating disorder, Hate crime, Medical trauma, Sexual harassment, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Infertility, Miscarriage, Suicide attempt, and Transphobia