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Black Girl, Call Home by Jasmine Mans

46 reviews

rlbitt's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, and Medical trauma

culpeppper's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

This is bursting with feeling, and I loved everything I heard in the author's voice as she read from this. The cementing of the speaker is established very early on, in this home, before switching to other places and times, exploring the violence inflicted on black women, trans women, marginalized women, women by other women— and yet finding love, sensitivity, and care to balance out the oscillations of theme. It's not all violence, hatred, but many of the poems focus on a sense of belonging or not belonging, feeling tugged from and to things, and being questioned on who, or what, you are the entire time. It's moving, visceral, upsetting while peaceful, loving in it's care for speaker, subject, and readers alike. It offers real vulnerability that I crave in poetry. I would rate the audio book version itself a 4.75 due to having trouble discerning the poems from one another, or what their titles were, as the breaks between poetry and title were too short to pick up sometimes. I will definitely need to see these all in a printed format, because although the author's voice added much more personal depth and allowed for some really interesting readings of the poems (like "Missing Girls"), I think I need to really sit with these and read at my own pace again soon!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Pregnancy, Slavery, Lesbophobia, Death, Ableism, Murder, Torture, Medical trauma, Rape, Violence, Grief, Child death, Transphobia, Sexual violence, Misogyny, Hate crime, Toxic relationship, and Confinement

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Classism, Bullying, Gun violence, Religious bigotry, Drug use, Blood, Kidnapping, Trafficking, Medical content, Racial slurs, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Fire/Fire injury and Cancer

nanduh's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense fast-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Police brutality, and Rape

Moderate: Lesbophobia and Homophobia

Minor: Death

moriahleigh's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

Moderate: Homophobia, Mental illness, Violence, Hate crime, Sexual violence, Grief, Lesbophobia, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, Gun violence, Murder, and Rape

Minor: Self harm

bladebailey's review against another edition

emotional reflective fast-paced

5.0

Jasmine Mans' poetry collection, titled Black Girl, Call Home, meditates on the themes of Black identity, womanhood and feminism, intersectionalism, homosexuality, rape, institutionalized violence, and much more. Suitable for adult readers of any level of familiarity to poetry, Mans' writing style is blunt and meaningful without overly obscuring the punchline. I personally endorse listening to Black Girl, Call Home as an audiobook (narrated by the author herself), because poetry is a living breathing art form and should be consumed as such. As someone who typically struggles with poetry, I genuinely enjoyed every piece within Mans' beloved and utterly necessary collection.

My favorite poems from the collection:
—Momma Said Dyke at the Kitchen Table
—1,000 Questions on Gender Roles for a Lesbian
—Whitney: Fairy Godmother, Whitney: 'Boy, Can That Girl Sang', Whitney: Gone, Whitney: Hologram 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Police brutality, Homophobia, and Racism

thehomiemona's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Lesbophobia, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual violence, Homophobia, Police brutality, and Rape

anniereads221's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Rape, Violence, Racial slurs, Grief, Police brutality, Blood, Sexual violence, Lesbophobia, Gun violence, and Racism

Moderate: Cancer and Death

Minor: Slavery and Transphobia

jaiari12's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Rape, Lesbophobia, Racism, Slavery, Violence, and Sexual violence

sup3r_xn0va_maya's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

5.0

This was a quick listen that I plan to go back and listen to this audiobook again. I really enjoyed the poems in this book, they were so moving and they perfectly depicted life as a Black queer femme in the US. Some of them were hard to get through,

the one about Sandra Bland made me tear up, the one about the mentally ill victims of force sterilizations made me cry.

Actually, a lot of the poems on this book left me feeling sensitive and vulnerable. 

Overall I'm going to give this 5 out of 5 stars 
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Hate crime, Violence, Sexual violence, Murder, Racism, Sexual assault, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Biphobia, Police brutality, Death, Homophobia, and Transphobia

salemander's review against another edition

5.0

gorgeous and heartbreaking poetry. this book is a love letter to black women and community and what it means to be queer

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Rape, and Racism