Reviews tagging 'Medical trauma'

A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder by Ma-Nee Chacaby

7 reviews

thesapphiccelticbookworm's review against another edition

adventurous challenging inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Alcohol, Child abuse, Rape, Child death, Violence, Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, Homophobia, and Racism

Moderate: Genocide, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, and Pregnancy

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Colonisation, and Suicide

foldingthepage_kayleigh's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Rape, Racism, Medical trauma, Medical content, Addiction, Child abuse, Ableism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, Homophobia, Grief, Drug abuse, Death of parent, Bullying, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Classism, Chronic illness, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Lesbophobia, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Sexual violence, Child death, Alcoholism, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Pregnancy, and Drug use

literarylarisa's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Domestic abuse, Grief, Pregnancy, Suicide attempt, Racism, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Abandonment, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Hate crime, Homophobia, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Rape, and Sexual violence

therainbowshelf's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

A really well done and engaging memoir retelling a life filled with pain, hardship, and triumph. I highly recommend this read, but it comes with strong content warnings for alcoholism, drug use, child abuse, rape, assault, homophobia, racism, torture, domestic abuse, child death, and other content that may be difficult for some readers.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Abandonment, Addiction, Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Hate crime, Rape, Sexual assault, Torture, Death, Death of parent, Physical abuse, Racism, Alcohol, Child abuse, Child death, Colonisation, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Lesbophobia, Medical trauma, and Sexual violence

Minor: Ableism

SIDS

bobbi's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Drug abuse, Medical trauma, Alcoholism, Addiction, Homophobia, Religious bigotry, Torture, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Medical content, Suicidal thoughts, Kidnapping, Racism, Child death, Death, and Death of parent

laurenleigh's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

It’s hard to know where even to start here. This was incredible. First off, I want to give Ma-Nee Chacaby the biggest hug. I am so grateful that she has chosen to set her story to paper. Chacaby has faced unfathomable hardships in her life. The hits just kept on coming. That she has even survived, let alone come out the other side healthy and stable and able to recount these stories is remarkable. I bow down to her strength, resolve, spirituality, and ability to connect to love despite everything. Her stories really got me thinking about cycles of abuse. I’ve read briefly about how alcoholism is unfortunately common in many Native communities, especially among survivors of residential schools. But hearing about it first hand from Chacaby was something else entirely. (Not that she herself went to a residential school, but she faced unthinkable trauma regardless.) There are so many webs of abuse, addiction, poverty, and violence, and their intersections are deadly. Near the end of her memoir, Chacaby notes how there’s not many queer female Indigenous elders. She thinks about all her friends and family that have died along the way, often directly because of these webs of abuse. And then it got me thinking about how where these abuse cycles began, and it’s pretty much always white supremacy. I think it’s so important for white Americans and Canadians to listen to Indigenous stories, and reflect on how we can take part in disrupting these harmful cycles. Chacaby‘s story as a disabled, lesbian, two spirit Ojibwa-Cree is one I will never forget.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Violence, Toxic relationship, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Rape, Medical trauma, Hate crime, Emotional abuse, Drug abuse, and Child death

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Pregnancy, Medical content, Death of parent, and Death

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Suicide attempt, and Racism

deestraith's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced

5.0

I loved this book and will absolutely read it again in a future year. I grew up in north-ish Ontario in an industry town and was really reminded of a bit of that early in the book. As Ma-Nee went through the trials of her life, I felt angry for her; and then, as she discovered more about herself in her adulthood, I was joyful. I hope that whatever she's up to right now, she's surrounded in love and healing. Would absolutely read again.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Grief, Homophobia, Misogyny, and Rape

Moderate: Drug use, Hate crime, Racism, Child death, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Genocide

Minor: Cancer and Terminal illness