Reviews tagging 'Rape'

Black Girl, Call Home by Jasmine Mans

44 reviews

kaynova's review

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

i need to purchase the audiobook and the physical book because i need this for keepsakes, i need to hold this to my heart, no scratch that, my soul.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Lesbophobia, Grief, Police brutality, Death of parent, Body horror, Rape, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Homophobia, and Sexual assault

ukponge's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Police brutality, and Racism

kleinekita's review against another edition

challenging emotional medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Murder, Rape, Police brutality, Slavery, Death, Racism, Sexism, and Misogyny

valeriaperez261's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad fast-paced

3.5

 This book played with me HARD. 

Some poems made me quite literally tear up while others felt Rupi Kaur-esque so to say I got literary whiplash from this collection is an understatement. Overall I think the words were beautiful and encapsulated the author’s experience very compellingly, I just wish it had gone through some more editing to filter out the filler. When I talk about the filler I mean poems like “Sharp”, they take away from the ones like “Birthing children not her own” and “Trans-panic”. 

Still I think it was pretty accessible and an enjoyable (as enjoyable as trauma can be) and important read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Lesbophobia, Racism, and Racial slurs

jessereadsthings's review against another edition

5.0

Real real good. Definitely recommend the audio book as it is read by the author and you can hear the emotion in her voice as she talks.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Homophobia, Rape, and Transphobia

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

shaerikireads's review

emotional informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Violence, and Homophobia

maddie_rae_reads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional fast-paced

4.0

I am not sure how to feel about this collection of poems. As a privileged white woman some of the things mentioned I simply cannot relate to, but that does not in any way make what was written irrelevant. 

I often felt uncomfortable while reading. Hard topics are addressed in reference to race, religion, rape, and more. I’m sure some of it is over my head, but the parts that resonated with me were beautiful and I hope more people read this book. 

Just know it’s not fluffy and sweet, it’s deep and hard and shines a light on those uncomfortable (and often not talked about) corners of society. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Lesbophobia, Homophobia, Racism, and Rape

cozylifewithabby's review against another edition

3.0

Challenging, but worth the read

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia

Moderate: Rape