Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

Zami: A New Spelling of My Name: A Biomythography by Audre Lorde

16 reviews

scarroll178's review against another edition

The website I was using to listen to the story stopped working 😭

I liked it though! Especially the parts about Lorde’s childhood.
I thought her recollections about her childhood were very insightful. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Racism

christie_evelyn's review

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

Moderate: Sexual assault, Racial slurs, Child abuse, Abortion, and Suicide

Minor: Homophobia and Mental illness

michaelion's review against another edition

emotional informative tense medium-paced

4.25

she, and i cannot stress this enough, just like me. fr. minus the dating white women. but the circumstances surrounding that and explanations? wow! she just like me! fr!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Suicide, Xenophobia, and Racism

Moderate: Sexual assault, Child abuse, Ableism, Racial slurs, Child death, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Drug use, Abortion, Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Death of parent, and Self harm

Minor: Cultural appropriation, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pedophilia, Cancer, Domestic abuse, Abandonment, Fatphobia, Outing, Infidelity, and Animal death

planetsaturns's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Abortion, and Homophobia

Moderate: Alcoholism

Minor: Animal death and Sexual assault

waytoomanybooks's review

adventurous challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

I’m so grateful that I was assigned this book in my Contemporary Queer Literature class. I have been meaning to read the works of Audre Lorde for a while, and I’m so glad I finally read Zami. It contains some of the most beautiful, thoughtful, challenging, descriptive prose I’ve ever read. It’s both deeply personal and deeply relatable in many aspects. Lorde leaves no stone unturned as she looks back at her life in the 30s, 40s, and 50s. We learn lessons right alongside her, and she is an excellent teacher and storyteller. This is an absolute must-read for anyone who wants to know more about queer history, Black history, feminism, and so much more. Her deep-dives into intersectionality are invaluable. You won’t be able to put this book down.

Please heed all the many, many content warnings I and others have tagged. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Body shaming, Lesbophobia, Abortion, Death, Fatphobia, Bullying, Classism, Infidelity, Grief, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Suicide, Toxic friendship, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Ableism, Animal death, Child death, Homophobia, Death of parent, Sexual assault, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Self harm, Medical trauma, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual harassment, Rape, Sexual violence, Sexism, Sexual content, Violence, and Suicide attempt

lynnloveshobi's review

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Abandonment, Classism, Grief, Bullying, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexism, Death, Infidelity, Lesbophobia, Self harm, Homophobia, Misogyny, Alcoholism, Animal death, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Racial slurs, Abortion, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Addiction

bourgeois_biscuit's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion

Moderate: Sexual assault

Minor: Incest

zombiezami's review

adventurous emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Racism, Sexual content, Self harm, Sexism, Animal death, Death, Child abuse, Alcohol, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Grief, Classism, Blood, Alcoholism, Lesbophobia, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Misogyny

Moderate: Bullying, Ableism, Drug use, Mental illness, Cursing, Fatphobia, Body shaming, Infidelity, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Forced institutionalization

Minor: Vomit, War, Trafficking, Cancer, and Slavery

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davidup_15's review

challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

3.0

Lorde's story is very, very inspirational, and there were quite a few moments that genuinely, genuinely hurt - on top of that, she does write absolutely beautifully. I personally didn't love this book, I think because it was a little too slow paced for my liking and didn't seem to deliver much of a coherent message, but that's very subjective to me - I am very, very glad that Lorde wrote the way she did, and about the subjects that she did, at the time that she did.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual assault, and Domestic abuse

bluehourphile's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

Audre Lorde has a wonderfully rich, sensual way of writing. I feel she invites you in to her musings and explores her story and trauma with the reader. Personal in a different level from a regular biography. It almost feels like you are reading one of her extended essays. Her acknowledgement and appreciation of the divine feminine comes through in all aspects of her biomythography, as well as the struggles of growing up in a segregated America as a black lesbian. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm

Moderate: Abortion, Drug use, Mental illness, Racism, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

Minor: Alcoholism