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hillysreads's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Child abuse, Racism, Body shaming, and Sexual assault
alexisgarcia's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual assault, Body shaming, Child abuse, Mental illness, Cursing, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Racism, Bullying, Sexual content, Grief, and Addiction
raes_library's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Child abuse, Eating disorder, and Sexual assault
Moderate: Fatphobia, Addiction, and Drug use
theycallme_bri's review against another edition
5.0
Minor: Sexual assault
shewritesinmargins's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Eating disorder, Racism, and Addiction
Moderate: Sexual assault
calcijade's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Racism and Eating disorder
Moderate: Physical abuse, Addiction, Fatphobia, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Grief
cradman's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Eating disorder, Violence, Addiction, Domestic abuse, Dysphoria, Self harm, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Racism, and Sexual violence
ems888's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Physical abuse and Racism
Moderate: Addiction, Child abuse, Sexual assault, Fatphobia, Eating disorder, and Body shaming
Minor: Police brutality
sapphire's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Child abuse, Eating disorder, and Domestic abuse
Moderate: Sexual assault
Minor: Drug use
rlgreen91's review against another edition
4.5
But as I said, this was necessary. The political is personal and the personal is political. The political and policy decisions we make has repercussions years, decades, centuries later. So much of the pain we deal with as a society is the consequences of deliberate political and policy decisions made by forebearers and ancestors. So much of the pain we deal with in our personal lives are the consequences of decisions made in response to those political and policy decisions. Simultaneously, we are the forebearers and ancestors making the political and policy decisions and decisions in response to that that will cause pain for others in the future. It all becomes this overwhelming, never-ending maze of hurt in many ways.
How do we start to heal on a personal and societal level? Hell, how do we just get it to stop hurting, at least? I agree with Laymon that that requires a level of honesty and vulnerability that many of us, myself included, struggle to engage with or refuse to contemplate.
This was a hard but necessary read - a memoir I will surely revisit but at least a good number of years from now. Maybe then I'll have a better idea of how to answer my questions. Until then - basking in Black abundance. 4.5 stars.
Graphic: Eating disorder, Addiction, Child abuse, and Racism
Moderate: Sexual assault, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Physical abuse, Rape, and Sexual violence