Reviews tagging 'Sexual violence'

Black Girl, Call Home by Jasmine Mans

18 reviews

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

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

midnightreads1803's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad tense fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Toxic relationship, Violence, Sexual violence, Transphobia, Sexual assault, Racism, Police brutality, and Mental illness

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

introvertsbookclub's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.5

My favourite kind of poetry – accessible and direct but full of so much emotion. It was difficult not to underline every verse;  there were so many moments that had me reaching for my pencil, rereading, reading out loud and then just sitting with.

Rather than being divided into sections, the poems naturally moved from one to the next, being clustered together by subject and picking up recurring themes across the collection. Together the poems explored racism, misogyny, homophobia, violence, family, motherhood, love, heartbreak, pop culture, and so many other strands of life. Through their poems Mans questioned injustice and cruelty, but also celebrated community and change. The range of topics and perspectives created an expansive insight into life as a Black woman and an incredibly impactful reading experience.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual violence, Racism, and Violence

fengxin's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Racism, Religious bigotry, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Medical trauma, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Hate crime, and Gun violence

Moderate: Self harm

michaelion's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective tense fast-paced

4.25

My girlfriend gave me this for my birthday, now I gotta give it back to him so they can read it too! 🥰

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Lesbophobia, Child death, Gun violence, Grief, Sexual violence, Rape, Misogyny, Homophobia, Death, Miscarriage, Racism, Police brutality, and Violence