Reviews tagging 'Sexual violence'

Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness by Da’Shaun Harrison

7 reviews

bisexualbookshelf's review

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality

Moderate: Sexual violence and Sexual assault

chlo_po's review

informative reflective fast-paced

4.5

Harrison gets to the core of our World (anti-fatness and anti-blackness) in damning detail and with painful and expansive arguments. They provide incontrovertible evidence  about how and why we must all collectively build a new world without cages and the social constructs that continue to propagate violence. At times I had to pause to make sure I was getting everything, but this made me reflect and challenge myself, and is a must read for anyone with a body. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Fatphobia, and Sexual violence

mals_reads's review

challenging informative reflective fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Fatphobia, and Racism

Moderate: Pedophilia, Transphobia, and Sexual violence

zombiezami's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Racism, Fatphobia, and Police brutality

Moderate: Child abuse, Rape, Medical content, Medical trauma, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Slavery, Sexual content, Misogyny, Racial slurs, and Pedophilia

Minor: Blood, Suicide, and Colonisation

Eugenics

arsenic_'s review

informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Slavery, Police brutality, Sexual assault, Fatphobia, Transphobia, Murder, and Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Xenophobia, Medical trauma, Racial slurs, and Sexual violence

lettuce_read's review

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Police brutality, Racism, Sexual violence, Ableism, Death, Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Child abuse, and Fatphobia

azariamckay's review

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective tense fast-paced

5.0

This book was such an amazing read! The writing is accessible and Da’Shaun Harrison blew me away with their expanses on anti-fatness, anti-blackness, gender, and the patriarchy. I loved this book so much and would absolutely encourage any and everyone to read it. This should be required reading in academic spaces!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Transphobia, Child abuse, Sexual violence, Drug abuse, and Eating disorder

The trigger warnings I added for the book are just to let folks know Da’Shaun briefly touches on these topics in order to gain further context for their main argument in the book. These content warnings are not to say the topics are explicitly detailed in the book, just that there is mention for furthering the main points of the book.