Reviews tagging 'Pregnancy'

Black Girl, Call Home by Jasmine Mans

5 reviews

culpeppper's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

This is bursting with feeling, and I loved everything I heard in the author's voice as she read from this. The cementing of the speaker is established very early on, in this home, before switching to other places and times, exploring the violence inflicted on black women, trans women, marginalized women, women by other women— and yet finding love, sensitivity, and care to balance out the oscillations of theme. It's not all violence, hatred, but many of the poems focus on a sense of belonging or not belonging, feeling tugged from and to things, and being questioned on who, or what, you are the entire time. It's moving, visceral, upsetting while peaceful, loving in it's care for speaker, subject, and readers alike. It offers real vulnerability that I crave in poetry. I would rate the audio book version itself a 4.75 due to having trouble discerning the poems from one another, or what their titles were, as the breaks between poetry and title were too short to pick up sometimes. I will definitely need to see these all in a printed format, because although the author's voice added much more personal depth and allowed for some really interesting readings of the poems (like "Missing Girls"), I think I need to really sit with these and read at my own pace again soon!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Pregnancy, Slavery, Lesbophobia, Death, Ableism, Murder, Torture, Medical trauma, Rape, Violence, Grief, Child death, Transphobia, Sexual violence, Misogyny, Hate crime, Toxic relationship, and Confinement

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Classism, Bullying, Gun violence, Religious bigotry, Drug use, Blood, Kidnapping, Trafficking, Medical content, Racial slurs, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Fire/Fire injury and Cancer

staronsaturn's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

3.75

very informative and reflective on my personal life. the part that stood out most was def the "Bodies Lost in History" abt women being non-consensually used for medical practice and abt forgotten/unknown women:(( i liked the mentions of growing up in blackgirlhood tho, very nostaligic. idk overall a very fine book, i learned, i teared up, i smiled, i empathized, i sighed. id reread a few of the poems if i got the chance i think. jasmine's a great writer and knows how to grab your attention with descriptive storytelling and rlly knows how to set a scene which i appreciate. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Sexual content, Slavery, Racism, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Police brutality and Violence

Minor: Homophobia and Lesbophobia

fengxin's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Racism, Religious bigotry, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Medical trauma, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Hate crime, and Gun violence

Moderate: Self harm

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

readmeem's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective tense fast-paced

4.0

This would be a pleasant read for any woman of color. I felt so many of these poems (even starred some). One thing that I would have liked to see is a break up of when they would start talking about another section (family, relationships, rape etc)

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Content Warnings

Minor: Murder, Racial slurs, Medical content, Death, Medical trauma, Racism, Grief, Rape, and Pregnancy