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lindsayvale's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Cursing, Drug use, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Classism
alexisgarcia's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Addiction, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Grief
raes_library's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Child abuse, Eating disorder, and Sexual assault
Moderate: Addiction, Drug use, and Fatphobia
ichewonpushpins's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Body shaming, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Racial slurs, Racism, Self harm, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, and Violence
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Gun violence, and Misogyny
shewritesinmargins's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Addiction, Eating disorder, and Racism
Moderate: Sexual assault
calcijade's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Eating disorder and Racism
Moderate: Addiction, Fatphobia, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Grief
cradman's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Addiction, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Physical abuse, Racism, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, and Dysphoria
ems888's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Physical abuse and Racism
Moderate: Addiction, Body shaming, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, and Sexual assault
Minor: Police brutality
rlgreen91's review against another edition
4.5
But as I said, this was necessary. The political is personal and the personal is political. The political and policy decisions we make has repercussions years, decades, centuries later. So much of the pain we deal with as a society is the consequences of deliberate political and policy decisions made by forebearers and ancestors. So much of the pain we deal with in our personal lives are the consequences of decisions made in response to those political and policy decisions. Simultaneously, we are the forebearers and ancestors making the political and policy decisions and decisions in response to that that will cause pain for others in the future. It all becomes this overwhelming, never-ending maze of hurt in many ways.
How do we start to heal on a personal and societal level? Hell, how do we just get it to stop hurting, at least? I agree with Laymon that that requires a level of honesty and vulnerability that many of us, myself included, struggle to engage with or refuse to contemplate.
This was a hard but necessary read - a memoir I will surely revisit but at least a good number of years from now. Maybe then I'll have a better idea of how to answer my questions. Until then - basking in Black abundance. 4.5 stars.
Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Eating disorder, and Racism
Moderate: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Medical content
vavocado's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Body shaming and Eating disorder
Moderate: Addiction