Reviews tagging 'Police brutality'

Black Girl, Call Home by Jasmine Mans

34 reviews

seirid's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Police brutality, Slavery, Transphobia, Death, Misogyny, and Homophobia

queenshrike's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring relaxing sad tense medium-paced

4.75

This is not a book that I think can be read in one sitting. I had to pause and come back so many times. Not just out of sadness or anger but because a phrase, a line, a stanza, a poem hit me in a deep place and I needed a moment or several really. I adore this work.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abortion, Addiction, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Gun violence, Mental illness, Murder, Racism, Bullying, Classism, Drug use, Grief, Alcohol, Colonisation, Death, Lesbophobia, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Homophobia, Police brutality, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Slavery

hngisreading's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Grief, Infertility, Medical content, Mental illness, Misogyny, Rape, Lesbophobia, Medical trauma, Murder, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Slavery, Transphobia, and Violence

caitlinbutcher's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Police brutality, Slavery, Trafficking, Racism, Homophobia, Forced institutionalization, Medical trauma, and Death of parent

kyrstin_p1989's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

Beautiful poems about all the ways Black women lose, repossess, fight for, love, and leave their homes, both figurative and literal. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Death, Gaslighting, Grief, Hate crime, Lesbophobia, Misogyny, Police brutality, Racism, Sexism, and Toxic relationship

ollie_again's review against another edition

emotional reflective fast-paced

5.0

 

You will not call yourself a ______
because her body was made
for you,
and how dare she
act like
she owns herself.

I'm usually not much for poetry, but this is phenomenal 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Hate crime, Lesbophobia, Rape, Racism, and Medical trauma

Minor: Murder, Police brutality, Gun violence, and Transphobia

edithcazares02's review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

This was absolutely powerful, Insightful and at times a little triggering. But I couldn’t put it down once I got going, I admit that I ugly cried about 90% of this book. The underlying messages were incredible and done with such beauty at times. 

This book will stay with me for a long time 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Hate crime, Homophobia, Torture, Transphobia, Grief, Police brutality, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, and Trafficking

rw_123's review against another edition

emotional fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Rape, Transphobia, and Medical trauma

bookiecharm's review against another edition

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical trauma, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual violence, and Slavery

havelock's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Rape, and Police brutality