Reviews tagging 'Transphobia'

Your Wound, My Garden by Alok Vaid-Menon

8 reviews

mari1532's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

I am so lucky that my library has a copy of this book available to read. I have followed Vaid-Menon's social media accounts for a while but was late to the game in picking up their written work. They are a beautiful, emotional, moving writer and I felt a wide range of emotions while reading their poetry. Vaid-Menon's ability to create imagery and empathy with their words is truly breathtaking. I read several of the poems multiple times. Highly recommend. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Dementia, Body shaming, Grief, and Transphobia

Moderate: Pandemic/Epidemic

gann's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective slow-paced

5.0

beautiful poetry reflecting on grief, bipoc families, and the COVID-19 pandemic. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Terminal illness

Moderate: Transphobia, Homophobia, and Racism

arsenic_'s review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Medical content, Colonisation, Death, and Transphobia

nagev's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Racism, Medical content, Chronic illness, and Transphobia

tortoisemonster's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Transphobia, Chronic illness, and Grief

imrereads's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia and Death

moonyreadsbystarlight's review against another edition

emotional reflective

5.0

I would rate this higher if I could. I finished this collection feeling changed. I felt profoundly moved and seen and seeing. Some experiences felt like they wrote a poem out of my own feelings, while others I can not possibly have known, but their words wrapped me in that situation so tightly I couldnt help but feel for them (feel with them?). I know this is what poetry does and I feel this with so much poetry, but this collection left me feeling even more. I don't know how to properly articulate it. This is a very short collection, but every poem is so powerful, it makes sense exactly as it is. This hits on gender, disability, greiving, several are even about COVID, and SO many are about love (loving friends, loving strangers, loving yourself -- how sometimes these can all be the same). 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Transphobia

Several poems talk about the COVID-19 pandemic and quarantine

someonelikeblue's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Mental illness, Terminal illness, Violence, Transphobia, Racism, Medical content, Hate crime, and Grief