Reviews tagging 'Sexism'

White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better by Saira Rao, Regina Jackson

6 reviews

fkshg8465's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

A must read for anyone serious about antiracism.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, Gaslighting, Pandemic/Epidemic, Emotional abuse, Sexism, Racial slurs, Toxic friendship, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racism, Body shaming, and Fatphobia

skudiklier's review

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

I truly think this book should be required reading for every white woman. It's fairly comprehensive and it's so much more direct than other antiracism books I've read; there's no way you can read this without at least considering your own racism and the ways you perpetuate white supremacism.

This book isn't perfect (it weirdly never mentions capitalism despite that feeling a bit like the elephant in the room at some points) but it doesn't need to be. It's an amazing wake-up call for white women and I really think we'd make a lot more progress more quickly if we could just snap our fingers and have everyone read this. And not just read it, but really really think about how your own racism plays into this. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Racism, and Sexism

Moderate: Police brutality, Pandemic/Epidemic, Xenophobia, Hate crime, Colonisation, Death, Genocide, Murder, Slavery, Racial slurs, Cultural appropriation, Violence, Islamophobia, and Classism

Minor: Pregnancy, Deportation, Mass/school shootings, Eating disorder, and Bullying

lettuce_read's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism and Racism

Moderate: Genocide

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic

saskiahill's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

A must read. Some of the descriptions brought such clarity to topics I had an inkling of, but didn't necessarily have the words for. Powerful, motivating, and the good kind of uncomfortable.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Xenophobia, Misogyny, Cultural appropriation, Sexism, Gaslighting, and Racism

Moderate: Police brutality, Murder, Slavery, Gun violence, Genocide, and Colonisation

Minor: Racial slurs and Pandemic/Epidemic

There are uncomfortable topics covered by this book, but they are discussed as bad things, they're not encouraged or supported in the text. E.g. there are explicit examples of cultural appropriation, but the book is pointing out why this is wrong.

buttermellow's review

challenging dark informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

Moderate: Sexism

eslsilver's review

challenging dark informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Xenophobia, Sexism, and Racism