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abbyluvsfrogs444's review against another edition
4.5
Moderate: Dysphoria, Body shaming, Classism, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Racism, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Rape
skyfluff8's review against another edition
4.0
Moderate: Body shaming, Sexual violence, Rape, Pedophilia, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, War, Sexism, Pregnancy, and Violence
montyalmoro's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Sexual content, Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence
pricekillick's review against another edition
3.0
‘what we lived through
is living in us’
Graphic: Sexism, Sexual harassment, and Mental illness
intonewrealms's review against another edition
1.5
The book is split into four sections: Mind; Heart; Rest; Awake. I would say that Mind is far and away the best as it contains the most amount of poems which I feel actually manage to explore Kaur’s trauma or ruminate on her experiences whereas I feel a lot of this stuff is pretty classic ‘Instagram poetry’. A lot of it is also just very nothingy for example whilst I wholeheartedly agree with the statement ‘I am not interested in a feminism/ that excludes trans women’ to me that is not poetry, it is just a statement. In the longer poems my biggest issues is the punctuation: full stops in the middle of a sentence; line breaks without a purpose. If you are going to play with punctuation for a reason I understand that but this just felt like she was trying to be ✨different✨ because if you read this poetry aloud the way that she has written it down it sounds ridiculous! I also don’t understand why sometimes she does this thing of putting a hyphen and then the last line of the poem as if it’s the title. One thing I will say I liked was her ocasional word play, such as Sikh and sick, and the alliterative sound of the phrase ‘soles swollen’ for example, but I wish she had done things like this an awful lot more.
Graphic: Child abuse and Rape
Moderate: Racism and Sexism
citrusgrove's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Sexual assault, Rape, Racism, and Child abuse
Moderate: Toxic friendship, Sexism, and Toxic relationship
Minor: Domestic abuse
ospreyadventure's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Classism, and Racism
youshouldntbeseeingthis03's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Mental illness, Racism, Sexual harassment, Child abuse, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, War, Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, Homophobia, Misogyny, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, and Transphobia
_ellie_reading_'s review against another edition
5.0
Minor: Child abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence
ibetyousmellhaha's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Racism, Sexual assault, Sexism, and Toxic relationship