Reviews tagging 'Racism'

Life in the City of Dirty Water: A Memoir of Healing by Clayton Thomas-Muller

9 reviews

tender_onion's review

emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Grief, Pedophilia, Sexism, Sexual violence, Child death, Racism, Sexual assault, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Hate crime, Police brutality, Sexual harassment, Death, Violence, Colonisation, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, and Rape

Moderate: Classism

joshlegere's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse and Suicide

Moderate: Racism and Addiction

Minor: Cursing

comeundun's review

emotional hopeful informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, Racism, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Drug use, Physical abuse, and Domestic abuse

booksandprosecco's review

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Genocide, Racism, Child death, Colonisation, Sexual assault, Addiction, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Grief, Rape, and Self harm

reading_rainbows's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Colonisation, Death of parent, Drug use, and Racism

bookthia's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

4.25

I had never heard of Clayton Thomas-Müller prior to this book.  How is that possible when I was familiar with most of the organizations he had worked for?  

I am SO GLAD this book was selected for Canada Reads 2022 because otherwise, it would not have crossed my path. And I am SO GLAD I read this.  I learned.  I ached.  I grieved.  I questioned myself.  I learned some more.  

This book is gut-wrenchingly candid, profoundly forthright, relevant, important, generous in spirit, informative and unapologetic.  If you need to do some colonization unlearning, I HIGHLY recommend this book.  Go in with an open mind and an open heart.  It won't hurt so much.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Racism, Colonisation, Drug abuse, and Genocide

tracey1981's review

hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Physical abuse, Infidelity, Drug use, Bullying, Child death, Sexual violence, Adult/minor relationship, Drug abuse, Racism, Child abuse, Pedophilia, and Genocide

spaghettireads's review

emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Violence, and Racism

Moderate: Domestic abuse

Minor: Sexual content

ka_ke's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

This is a must read for anyone who calls themself an Ally of the First Nations, Métis & Inuit peoples.  Clayton paints a brutal picture of what life is like as an Indigenous male trying to survive a colonialist society. It is oddly inspiring. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Bullying, Child abuse, Colonisation, Cultural appropriation, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Grief, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Violence, and Cursing

Moderate: Abandonment and Confinement