Reviews tagging 'Alcohol'

Black and Blue: A Memoir of Racism and Resilience by Veronica Gorrie

6 reviews

carlytenille's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Classism, Dementia, Domestic abuse, Medical trauma, Panic attacks/disorders, Car accident, Death, Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail, Confinement, Racism, Violence, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Mental illness, Drug abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Physical abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death of parent, Police brutality, and Racial slurs

dayofrebecca's review

challenging emotional sad medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Rape, Police brutality, Sexual assault, and Drug abuse

lucyr21's review

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Bullying, Child death, Death of parent, Racial slurs, Racism, Domestic abuse, and Police brutality

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Stalking, Addiction, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, and Sexism

Minor: Dementia

katiiekhaos's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

This is an incredibly important memoir for all white Australians to read and really reflect on. I am in total awe at the resilience, compassion, empathy and honesty Veronica showed through this memoir, although it may not come across as overtly emotional I can still see how she has chosen to share her heart with us while also protecting herself and others from being retraumatised. I felt like I was already fairly well educated on the issues within the Australian police, however seeing how bad it is even on the inside for First Nations people was even more disappointing and frustrating. And although Veronica talks about how it shouldn’t be on the shoulder of Aboriginal people to educate whites, this book definitely has the power to do that and for that I am so thankful for her selflessness in sharing her stories. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Domestic abuse, Racial slurs, Sexual assault, Violence, Alcoholism, Police brutality, and Racism

stuffinmybrainhole's review

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Racism, Sexual assault, Domestic abuse, Abandonment, Addiction, Alcohol, Child abuse, Violence, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

tamzen's review

informative sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Colonisation, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Police brutality, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence