Reviews tagging 'Domestic abuse'

Abolition. Feminism. Now. by Gina Dent, Erica Meiners, Beth Richie, Angela Y. Davis

3 reviews

caprivoyant's review

A great overview of abolition, feminism, and intersectionality. 

One of my favorite call-outs from this one, specifically, is about how abolition is often sometimes seen as a utopian solution and how that makes even the organizing for it rather unobtainable. We're all human, we all make mistakes, and abolition is meant to support humans; so it's natural that the process of abolition itself might be wrought with trip-ups and tumbles. And maybe that's the point because in figuring out how to navigate the trip-ups, we learn valuable lessons about how to care for one another more deeply and start to build new systems and practices that become instrumental to a society that values freedom for everyone.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Police brutality, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Sexual assault, Colonisation, Misogyny, Racism, and Rape

Minor: Hate crime

goldenjunegem's review against another edition

informative sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Racism, Violence, Sexual violence, and Domestic abuse

michaelion's review against another edition

hopeful informative medium-paced

3.5

This isn't a negative of the book but this is my first nonfiction reading that isn't for a class, and I'm just realizing all nonfiction books are very repetitive.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Classism, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Forced institutionalization, Murder, Police brutality, Sexism, Gun violence, Sexual assault, and Racism

Minor: Torture