Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval by Saidiya Hartman

4 reviews

saint_eleanor's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective relaxing sad slow-paced

5.0

So lovely and beautiful, i love women

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, Racial slurs, and Racism

Moderate: Rape and Domestic abuse

Minor: Child abuse and Child death

shoulberg's review against another edition

challenging emotional slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Violence

antonique_reads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Abandonment, Racism, Racial slurs, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Police brutality, Miscarriage, Violence, Sexual harassment, Physical abuse, Lesbophobia, Infidelity, Homophobia, Forced institutionalization, Emotional abuse, Classism, Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, and Death

laurareads87's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

Absolutely incredible -- Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments is absolutely one of the best books rooted in archival research that I've ever read.  In recognizing "the revolutionary ideals that animated ordinary lives" [xv] Hartman works with the goal of learning from Black women who experimented with new ways of living and community-building and connecting that resisted the racist and patriarchal criminalization, pathologization, and violence surrounding them.  The argument: that "young black women were radical thinkers who tirelessly imagined other ways to live and never failed to consider how the world might be otherwise" [xv].  In working with fragments - arrest records, photos, case files - Hartman speculates on what has been lost, what these women might've been thinking and feeling, the text "marked by the errantry that it describes" [xiv].  Highly, highly recommend.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Forced institutionalization, Racism, Racial slurs, Police brutality, and Confinement

Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Misogyny, Torture, and Sexual violence

Minor: Gun violence