Reviews tagging 'Pregnancy'

Crying in the Bathroom by Erika L. Sánchez

12 reviews

clpaige's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abortion, Mental illness, Gaslighting, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Emotional abuse, and Grief

spaghettireads's review

emotional funny hopeful reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Suicidal thoughts, Pregnancy, Suicide, Sexual content, Mental illness, and Medical content

melanders_07's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Abortion, Mental illness, Self harm, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Pregnancy, Racism, Sexual harassment, and Sexism

Minor: Colonisation, Infidelity, Violence, Classism, Pandemic/Epidemic, Drug use, and Emotional abuse

ms_elchert's review

dark emotional funny sad medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, and Racism

Moderate: Chronic illness, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Self harm and Alcoholism

evavstheworld's review

challenging emotional reflective

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Abortion, Mental illness, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Body shaming, Pregnancy, Fatphobia, and Sexual content

cmorhun's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Suicide, Sexual assault, Classism, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Colonisation, Cursing, Alcohol, Mental illness, Rape, Self harm, Pregnancy, and Racism

wholeottabooks's review

reflective medium-paced

5.0

Synopsis: Erika L. Sanchez recounts her life encompassing her family’s origins, her childhood in Chicago, her journey to poetry, writing, and teaching, struggles with mental health, experiences with reproductive health and sexual pleasure, and through her journey to motherhood. 

My thoughts: Erika has such a lovable and relatable voice. In this memoir she is honest, vulnerable, and oh so funny. As a Latina that is also from Chicago, her words make me feel seen. Putting words to her experiences and those of many other young Latina women is extremely powerful. I delighted in every chapter and rooted for her healing the whole way. I feel as though this was mostly written for her own healing and for her daughter, but it is a blessing to our community.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Abortion, Pregnancy, and Mental illness

Minor: Sexual assault, Alcohol, Self harm, and Gun violence

nadia's review

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

Despite listening to her narrate her own story, it took me a little bit of time to feel connected to Sánchez and this memoir. Eventually I got really into it and I appreciated the discussions around identity, mental health, motherhood and pregnancy, beauty standards, racism, relationships, crafting a career, and more. Throughout it all, Sánchez was unflinchingly honest and vulnerable, which added to the memoir's impact and relatability.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Grief, Mental illness, Abortion, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Racism

Minor: Rape

maggie_the_ferocious_reader's review against another edition

emotional funny medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Self harm, Racism, Suicide attempt, Abortion, Sexual assault, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Toxic friendship and Toxic relationship

abbie_'s review

challenging emotional funny reflective medium-paced

4.0

I usually prefer memoirs which are written in a narrative style, as opposed to essays, but I did really enjoy this memoir-in-essays! Lots of unflinching depictions of mental illness which I always appreciate, and I thought Sánchez's portrayal of 'an abortion that saved [her] life' was incredible. One thing that stuck out to me from this part was how she says people who support the right to choose often censor themselves when it comes to their own experiences with abortion, especially if they happen to be traumatic because that rhetoric can so easily be taken by pro-lifers and twisted out of context. Sánchez laments how there can be a lack of nuance around abortion, and I'm glad she felt able to tell her story of an abortion which was obviously extremely traumatic for her, but ultimately the right choice given her mental state at the time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Medical trauma, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Mental illness, Pregnancy, and Racism