Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

Meu corpo minha casa by Rupi Kaur

164 reviews

hmatt's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful

1.0

Oh boy, this was not good. My curiosity got the better of me, though, and the audiobook is an hour long. 

Most of these "poems" were cringeworthy, to me. Very few read as poems, at least via audio - they feel more like bits of memoir and I think I would have been more interested if some of them had been fleshed out as essays instead of needlessly stylized (e.g. the one about her dad as a truck driver). Many of the more political/social-justicey ones just read like out-of-context buzzwordy instagram captions strung together, and I really was not compelled to believe their genuineness.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Islamophobia, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual content, Adult/minor relationship, Xenophobia, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Mental illness

maat_firven's review against another edition

dark hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Rape, Racial slurs, Transphobia, and Racism

emoryscott's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Misogyny, Xenophobia, Lesbophobia, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Classism, Deportation, Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, Abortion, Sexual content, Cursing, Racism, Eating disorder, Sexual violence, Pedophilia, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic friendship, Suicidal thoughts, Sexism, Pregnancy, Fatphobia, Rape, Physical abuse, Hate crime, Grief, Chronic illness, Child abuse, Biphobia, Adult/minor relationship, Ableism, Mental illness, and Homophobia

realidadazul's review against another edition

emotional reflective fast-paced

2.75

I have read milk and honey, which at the time I rated 3.5 (pretty much because it did start the now popular instapoetry trend). I hoped to read a more mature Kaur, in the sense of her writing, since the themes she covers certainly are - and have been since her first book. However, I do feel like this is more of the same. Some poems are just one line long, some are not even 5 words long.
The best in this collection are those where she does not shy away from a longer format, or those where she plays with the form and makes paragraphs look interesting. She does use more poetic writing sometimes, which was a pleasant surprise whenever I encountered it, but it also made me wonder why shy away from it in certain poems; for example, in a particular poem she says “the mouth of my mother’s legs”, whereas in an erotic poem she uses “pussy”, which I felt killed the tone of that particular one (the word *pussy*, in particular, appears in another poem where I feel its use was imperative and adds strength to it).
Her poems about capitalism and her experience as an immigrant are her strongest. I do have to give her props as she does not say the same thing over multiple poems, which was one of my original criticisms of milk and honey.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Sexual assault

quinnlind's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective relaxing sad tense fast-paced

4.25

I’d recommend this to any woman, especially women of color, trans women, women who are immigrants, women who have been s/a

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Rape, and Sexual assault

silverhastings13's review against another edition

dark sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Sexual assault

claranasman02's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Pedophilia, Child abuse, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

mika_ryan's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Child abuse, and Rape

skyfluff8's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Sexual violence, Rape, Pedophilia, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, War, Sexism, Pregnancy, and Violence

this_is_lee's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

I think I will always come back to this book. I loved the poetry and can see myself finding new parts of my life in it with every look through. 
It’s just simply beautiful. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Sexual assault, and Rape

Moderate: Racism and Mental illness