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1.0
Moderate: Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, and Sexual assault
sponberry's review against another edition
4.5
Moderate: Rape
Minor: Racism, Sexual assault, and Abortion
snowiceblackfruit77's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Police brutality, Body shaming, Sexual violence, Racism, Misogyny, Rape, Addiction, Child abuse, Violence, Bullying, and Murder
__niii__'s review against another edition
4.75
Moderate: Racism, Misogyny, and Rape
evangelinew's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Abortion, Rape, Hate crime, Racial slurs, and Racism
catgibbons's review against another edition
4.5
Moderate: Rape and Abortion
florizona's review against another edition
2.25
Graphic: Bullying, Rape, and Racial slurs
Minor: Fatphobia, Hate crime, Police brutality, Sexual violence, Slavery, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Body shaming, Mental illness, Abortion, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Pregnancy, Outing, Racism, Sexual content, and Sexism
rachthecreator's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Rape, Misogyny, Sexism, and Racism
itszosia's review against another edition
4.25
Moderate: Rape, Sexism, and Racism
Minor: Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, Sexual violence, Police brutality, Murder, Fatphobia, Misogyny, and Hate crime
klathe's review against another edition
3.5
- To Scratch, Claw, or Grope Clumsily or Frantically
- The Careless Language of Sexual Violence
- What We Hunger For
- The Illusion of Safety/The Safety of Illusion
- Reaching for Catharsis: Getting Fat Right (or Wrong) and Diana Spechler's Skinny
Also I will add here a quote that resonates from the essay, The Alienable Rights of Women. Quote:
"I struggle to accept that my body is a legislative matter. The truth of this fact makes it difficult for me to breathe. I don't feel like I have inalienable rights. I don't feel free. I don't feel like my body is my own." (p. 273-4).
Quotes such as the one above, and those essays above that I mentioned, I feel have a timelessness to them that will always be reflective of the plight of misogyny and life under patriarchy. Particularly in the above quote I found myself relating to the sentiment of 'my body is not my own' as a trans person living in the year 2023.
Elsewhere in this collection, however, this timelessness is lost and it so clearly reads as a text of its time (published in 2014). Despite many highlights and particular essays and points of interest I will take with me, I was left wanting more in many of Gay's media critiques and there were some moments where this definitely read as a feminist text born from the Tumblr era, or the feminist blogosphere as she states. I'm not sure yet if this fact on its own makes it good or bad, I found myself likening it to a kind of time capsule for pop culture and pop feminism of the time.
Take from it what you will. I liked this book and I have found a writer that I enjoy in Roxane Gay. I will definitely continue to read her work.
Graphic: Rape
Moderate: Abortion