Reviews tagging 'Rape'

Black Girl, Call Home by Jasmine Mans

47 reviews

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

yellow_star's review against another edition

inspiring sad medium-paced

4.0

This probably is too much for many teens to read and this is mainly an adult book.  Unless you're sadly already dealing with this heavy stuff in your own life. 

 There's a lot of sad in this, and it's not really a beautiful restful poetry book it's more of a mourning and rebellion book. The author discusses human rights violations against African Americans and queer people and  women, writes poetic responses to celebrities like Kanye and Serena and Michelle Obama, and does some experimenting with form like a word search for women murdered as a racist hate crime. Even poems that should be happy like the love of a mother or romantic partner are uneasy and fearful of future pain and violence. The poems about abused slaves and rape are too real and painful to read. Overall a good thing to read, but choose a reading time when you have some emotional bandwidth free to process it. 

There's also some sections on institutional abuse of the physically and mentally disabled. And some standing with missing or murdered indigenous women. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Racial slurs

Moderate: Physical abuse, Death, Confinement, Grief, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Addiction, Homophobia, Cultural appropriation, Classism, Child death, Child abuse, Body horror, Blood, Rape, Violence, Sexual violence, Sexism, Religious bigotry, Police brutality, Misogyny, Miscarriage, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Mass/school shootings, Hate crime, Gun violence, Forced institutionalization, Death of parent, and Ableism

bookishlesbian's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, and Slavery

hngisreading's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Grief, Infertility, Medical content, Mental illness, Misogyny, Rape, Lesbophobia, Medical trauma, Murder, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Slavery, Transphobia, and Violence

caitlinbutcher's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Police brutality, Slavery, Trafficking, Racism, Homophobia, Forced institutionalization, Medical trauma, and Death of parent

readmeem's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective tense fast-paced

4.0

This would be a pleasant read for any woman of color. I felt so many of these poems (even starred some). One thing that I would have liked to see is a break up of when they would start talking about another section (family, relationships, rape etc)

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Content Warnings

Minor: Murder, Racial slurs, Medical content, Death, Medical trauma, Racism, Grief, Rape, and Pregnancy

meaghanelizabook's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Rape, and Homophobia

Moderate: Death

wren_rainbow's review against another edition

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Medical trauma, and Rape