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soniajoy98's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Genocide, Hate crime, Racism, and Colonisation
Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, and Police brutality
Minor: Torture, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, War, and Classism
lady_of_the_labyrinth's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Genocide, Racism, and Police brutality
Moderate: Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, and Colonisation
gatorskulls's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Hate crime, Racism, and Police brutality
chronicacademia's review against another edition
Moderate: Domestic abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Hate crime, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Slavery, Police brutality, Cultural appropriation, Colonisation, and Classism
fromthefoxhole's review against another edition
4.5
4.5 - half star removed mostly because this has multiple chapters that are speeches she has given at various conferences and events. In a few cases I've either watched the speech on YouTube or read it as a one off, and some of the material overlaps in a way that makes it slightly less impactful overall. I think it could also have used a final chapter that acted as a final summarization/call to further education at the very least.
Despite this slight grievance, I think this book does well in its undertaking to relate struggle across location, gender, race, religion, nationality, or whatever divides humanity might face. Davis utilizes the wealth of own-voices books, movements across history, and anecdotes from her own past to present to the reader a framework within which we can find our foothold as activists. She speaks on trans and queer liberation, the occupation of Palestine, the ongoing struggle of Black people and people of color in the US. She briefly touches on disability rights and mental health institutionalization as well. She never shies away from the fact that there might be more points of intersectionality than previously understood, and I think that openness serves the reader well in providing external context to her works.
Anyway, I love Angela Davis. I've added so many books from her references here to my own reading list, and I'm excited to get cracking on those.
Moderate: Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mental illness, Racism, Sexism, Sexual violence, Slavery, Transphobia, Police brutality, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, Classism, and Deportation
jessereadsthings's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Genocide, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, and Colonisation
Moderate: Hate crime, Police brutality, and Classism
Minor: Ableism, Homophobia, Sexual assault, Transphobia, Antisemitism, and Islamophobia
lizziaha's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Hate crime, Racism, and Police brutality
Moderate: Transphobia
abitbetterbooks's review against another edition
I will say that the audio format made it a bit confusing to distinguish when a question was being posed and when Davis was answering in the interviews, but I loved hearing her narrate her own words. I do think because it’s separate occasions pieced together there is a bit of repetition but I think it mostly works and serves to drive home important points.
It’s sad because I do remember so clearly the period from which these writings and talks were from: not long after the Occupy movement, on the heels of groundbreaking activism in Ferguson and the heartbreaking loss of more Black lives like Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, and Michael Brown. And yet this work is more relevant than ever.
I loved the way Davis drew large connections between global movements, and evoked the history of collective actions behind dismantling segregation, and South African apartheid, while discussing the current state of life in Palestine. I really would love a hard copy or ebook of this to mark up and highlight important passages!
Minor: Confinement, Domestic abuse, Genocide, Hate crime, Racism, Sexism, Slavery, Transphobia, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Murder, Colonisation, and Deportation
peggy_racham's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Transphobia, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Islamophobia, Colonisation, War, Classism, and Deportation
caseythereader's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Racism, Slavery, Violence, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Colonisation, War, Classism, and Deportation