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Broken Places & Outer Spaces: Finding Creativity in the Unexpected by Nnedi Okorafor

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coolfoolmoon's review

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emotional informative inspiring fast-paced

4.5

Humans are so cool. Black women! 🫶🏾🥰
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emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.0

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emotional reflective

4.0

Overall, this was a neat memoir about her experience becoming paralyzed and how it impacted her writing. It was beautifully written. However, some parts were a bit rushed. In particular, I would have loved to see more of the last part expanded, when she was talking about African futurism and how going to Nigeria impacted her writing. But I'm glad I picked it up and hearing about her background makes me more excited to read more of her books!
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challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

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4.5

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5.0

Reading Nnedi Okorafor gets me so pumped up! She's so brilliant
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challenging emotional hopeful medium-paced

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challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

Listened to the audiobook read by the author. Her voice is so soothing!
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hopeful reflective slow-paced

4.5

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maisierosereads's review against another edition

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medium-paced

4.0

Broken Places & Outdoor Spaces is an interesting brief look at the author's experiences as a disabled Black girl & woman in the USA, and her route into creative writing. While I haven't had the opportunity to read any of Nnedi Okorafor's fictional writing yet, several of her books are on my TBR and I feel that I will be able to appreciate her writing more knowing the context covered by this book.

It is worth noting that some of the language used (e.g. wheelchair-bound) is not generally used by the disabled community today, and an emphasis on the medical model of disability over the (generally preferred) social model. I'm not sure whether these writing choices come from the fact that Okorafor started writing this book in the 90s, Okorafor's own perceptions of her experiences, or something else entirely. I would always recommend reading perspectives from a range of disabled people (there is no such thing as "the universal disabled experience" after all!) but I would definitely recommend that if this is your first time reading a memoir about disability.

Content warnings: medical content, medical trauma, ableism, anti-Black racism, anti-Black racist slurs, hallucinations (from prescribed opioid medications)
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