Reviews tagging 'Homophobia'

You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience by Tarana Burke, Brené Brown

4 reviews

kiwi_00's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

This did more to help my mental health than any other self-help book I've read especially the last essay, it helped me to give myself grace and understand that there is nothing inherently wrong with me. Do I need to change my behaviours? Yes, but I do not need to be perfect. It was interesting to learn and reflect upon the ideas that white supremacy and the policing of respectability politics can only work through shame and how love is needed not only as an emotion but as a framework to organise/ combat white supremacy and fascism. 
When talking about mental health or abuse, people tend to focus on statistics and graphs to show what's happening. There is never a focus on the visceral reaction to what individuals are experiencing, how people feel, and how they act even if it may seem 'crazy'.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Medical trauma, Child abuse, Sexual assault, Racism, and Mental illness

the_abundant_word's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, Cancer, Death, Colonisation, Self harm, Sexism, Injury/Injury detail, Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Gun violence, Grief, Transphobia, Racism, Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Eating disorder, Dysphoria, Drug abuse, Deadnaming, Toxic relationship, Slavery, Sexual assault, Panic attacks/disorders, Misogyny, Medical trauma, Hate crime, Gaslighting, Fatphobia, Rape, Lesbophobia, Addiction, Classism, Child abuse, Bullying, Body shaming, Alcohol, and Ableism

kaitlinlovesbooks's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Racism, and Misogyny

Moderate: Medical trauma, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, Sexual assault, Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Sexual content, Transphobia, and Outing

taratearex's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

This was really beautiful. I listened to the audiobook which is read by some of the essay authors and a few voice actors. The essays span a wide variety of topics from different perspectives, but they all center around the title- vulnerability, shame resilience, and the Black experience. The stories are heartbreaking, and moving, but inspiring and hopeful. I plan to pick up a hard copy at a bookstore so I can re-read and highlight some of the lines and passages, there were so many that as I heard them read I thought "oh I wish I could highlight that and read it again". I highly recommend picking this up.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Slavery, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Sexual assault, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Grief, Homophobia, Medical trauma, Transphobia, Mental illness, and Police brutality