Reviews tagging 'Death'

My Body by Emily Ratajkowski

13 reviews

emilistevenson's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Sexual assault

Moderate: Drug use, Drug abuse, and Death

reneeandreea's review

emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced

4.75

Powerful, moving, and a testament to what it means to be a woman in our modern age. Emrata is an artist, through and through.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Misogyny, and Sexual content

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Body shaming, Blood, Death, Eating disorder, Adult/minor relationship, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Medical content, Infidelity, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Drug use

bealittlebrave's review

challenging emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.75

I *loved* this. So insightful and observant, these extremely personal essays moved me deeply.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault

Moderate: Sexism, Sexual harassment, Death, Alcohol, Drug use, Rape, and Pregnancy

Minor: Stalking and Toxic friendship

daryn's review

emotional reflective tense medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, and Body shaming

Moderate: Death and Pregnancy

hngisreading's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Sexual assault, Rape, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Misogyny, and Body shaming

Moderate: Alcohol and Pregnancy

Minor: Death, Drug use, Eating disorder, Addiction, and Drug abuse

octoberburns's review

reflective relaxing medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault and Sexual harassment

Minor: Death, Drug abuse, and Eating disorder

sammantha's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual assault, Drug use, Mental illness, Death, Animal death, Stalking, Eating disorder, Cancer, Medical content, Body shaming, and Blood

aaliyahdreads's review

emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

My Body is beautifully written and poignant as Emily takes us though the experience of having your body commodified. Though reading her work I found myself relating deeply with the questions she grapples with and the feelings of shame and power she describes. I have never nor will I ever live a life like she has however I see her story and her experiences in my own and in the lives of the women around me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Sexual assault

mininea's review

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

Beautifully written with a great flow while reading. Was interesting to get to  read about the thoughts of someone who has capitalised her body and how this has impacted her, and reflect on the power dynamics she didn’t yet see.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment and Sexual assault

Minor: Drug use and Death

ntvenessa's review

challenging reflective medium-paced

2.5

Fascinating and incisive, but doesn't push quite far enough. Ratajkowski distills so well what it means to capitalise off your image by leveraging the male gaze. There are power dynamics and tension underlying her relationship with her own body as a result of selling her image in a landscape where beauty is defined by a white, cis-hetero patriarchy. This collection of essays is deeply personal and generous, although the temporal context is sometimes confusing to follow. There does some to be a deliberate shying away from what her work means to other women, especially young girls, who are subject to the beauty standards she reinforces. This shortsightedness is laid in stark contrast with the tenacity and heart found unmistakably in the rest of her essays, particularly in her evolving relationship with her body in the context of feminism and empowerment. I really enjoyed the tender and wise reflections on her youth and how mixed messaging around her body impacted how she saw herself. However, it seems a shame not to explore further how she herself is complicit in upholding the beauty standards that have both trapped her and lent her power (although as she writes, it is only power as bestowed on her by men and not true empowerment). I suppose when you are still capitalising off the very same system, it pays to flirt around these broader notions and keep the narrative tightly focused on the matter at hand -- and she does it well. I'd be keen to see a memoir after she leaves the industry.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Body shaming, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Colonisation, Cancer, Chronic illness, and Fatphobia

Minor: Drug abuse, Drug use, Death, Addiction, and Suicide attempt