Reviews tagging 'Sexual violence'

The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey Into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

5 reviews

kk_gotit_goinon's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

Everyone in academia should read this book. It calls out the experience of so many of us that most people refuse to acknowledge: racism, classism, ableism. All of these are still extremely prominent even in places that claim to be "committed to DEI" even in California where I live and work. 

Dr. Prescod-Weinstein lays everything out so well but without talking down to you or coming off like she is right and you are wrong. She doesn't claim to have all the answers or to know how to solve everything while still pointing out the very real issues that have to be addressed. 

Oh and the physics is pretty interesting but easy to understand (for a neuroscientist at least haha!) 

A must read for a academics and folks who want to try to make the world a better place. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Ableism, Racism, Slavery, Colonisation, Classism, Sexual violence, Mental illness, Cultural appropriation, Racial slurs, Sexism, and Misogyny

Minor: Rape

talonsontypewriters's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Classism, Colonisation, Sexism, Misogyny, and Transphobia

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Slavery, Car accident, Antisemitism, Kidnapping, Sexual violence, Police brutality, Death, Murder, Medical content, Medical trauma, Ableism, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Chronic illness, Panic attacks/disorders, War, Child death, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Racial slurs, Cancer, and Suicide

Colorism. Eugenics, mentions of forced sterilization. Climate change. Rape and assault are discussed and frankly but not graphically described; a chapter centered around rape includes a content warning in the preface and is able to be skipped.

breezer's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative slow-paced

3.0

Made some brilliant points but, ironically, was super disordered. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Colonisation, Rape, Racism, Slavery, Sexual violence, and Cultural appropriation

eb385's review against another edition

challenging medium-paced

4.0

Im gonna buy this book so i can reread it and take notes.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Racism, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Sexism, and Colonisation

mxastrophel's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape and Sexual violence