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luckyonesoph's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Ableism and Forced institutionalization
Moderate: Xenophobia
Minor: Death, Animal death, Child death, and Rape
greentearex's review against another edition
4.0
Moderate: Racism, Xenophobia, and Murder
Minor: Animal death and Animal cruelty
emmettdakool's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Suicide, Suicide attempt, Xenophobia, Suicidal thoughts, and Forced institutionalization
justkellyann's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Suicide attempt, Death, Child death, and Medical trauma
Minor: Xenophobia and Rape
whatannikareads's review against another edition
2.75
i’m a mixed bag of emotions about this book. after about halfway through i think the first half of the book was completely unnecessary/a different book altogether. i fell asleep quite a few times during the first half. the second half was much more interesting, but i kept getting whiplash on the organization of it; we kept switching from history to memoir to social science. i don’t feel the memoir section was expanded enough to be super engaging. the connection between the writer and david star jordan, aside from her research of him, felt like a reach. i think if she has developed her story more, or just made it a completely separate book, it could’ve been more enjoyable. the whole book could’ve just been 3 different articles tbh. it felt like reading a really long op-ed and i don’t think ot should’ve been a book tbh.
also again, i don’t know if talking about how shitty his beliefs were in the second half made up for how nicely he was portrayed in the first half?? it was just very clearly not written by a person of color lol.
Moderate: Medical trauma, Death, Racism, Xenophobia, Injury/Injury detail, and Ableism
sebastianflynn's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Infidelity, Racial slurs, Xenophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, Racism, Biphobia, Cursing, and Genocide
val_so_'s review against another edition
3.0
Graphic: Racism, Xenophobia, Murder, Ableism, Suicide attempt, Hate crime, Sexism, Misogyny, Death, Medical trauma, Medical content, and Homophobia
Moderate: Confinement, Animal death, Bullying, Child death, Classism, Cultural appropriation, and Xenophobia
del_phinium's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Racism, Xenophobia, and Murder
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, and Suicide attempt
Minor: Rape
claudiamacpherson's review against another edition
4.0
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts
Minor: Racism, Xenophobia, and Homophobia
mirto's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Animal death, Ableism, Gaslighting, Infertility, Classism, Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Xenophobia, and Hate crime
Moderate: Grief, Sexual violence, Police brutality, Death of parent, Medical trauma, Self harm, Sexual assault, War, Death, Emotional abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Murder, Infertility, Infidelity, and Rape