Reviews tagging 'Gun violence'

The Skin We're in: A Year of Black Resistance and Power by Desmond Cole

5 reviews

vanesst's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Police brutality, and Violence

Moderate: Murder, Gun violence, Colonisation, Death, Classism, Mass/school shootings, Deportation, and Hate crime

Minor: Slavery and Sexual assault

medhuvada's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

For anyone that thinks Canada is a bastion of inclusivity - this book holds a mirror to every wrong assumption and ingrained, systemic anti-Blackness and anti-Indigeneity. Cole writes of a year of activism in Canada, wraps each story and chapter with care and concern for those whose stories he shares, and demonstrates failures in a racist settler-colonial system. This should be mandatory reading across the country, and hopefully then the activists working to dismantle these harmful institutions will be joined by more Canadians.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Colonisation, Deportation, Gun violence, Mental illness, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Racism, and Violence

lizard800's review

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Racism, and Police brutality

Moderate: Colonisation, Deportation, Gun violence, and Mental illness

caelinsullivan's review

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, Sexual assault, Police brutality, Ableism, Mental illness, and Gun violence

sunsetcity's review

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

This book was super informative and really opened my eyes to the racial discrimination in Canada. I was never one of those people who thought Canada had no racism or problems, but there were so many cases and incidents that I have NEVER heard of and I have lived here my entire life. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mass/school shootings, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Slavery, Terminal illness, Trafficking, Transphobia, and Violence