Reviews tagging 'Toxic friendship'

Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement by Tarana Burke

4 reviews

camsara99's review

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Sexual content, Pregnancy, Misogyny, Gaslighting, Violence, Racism, Domestic abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Body shaming, Adult/minor relationship, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Pedophilia, Toxic friendship, and Sexism

Moderate: Incest

stephmcoakley's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, Pedophilia, Toxic friendship, Rape, Sexual assault, Gaslighting, Murder, Racism, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Incest, Racial slurs, Drug use, Gun violence, and Emotional abuse

toofondofbooks_'s review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

Wow. Just WOW. This memoir by Tarana Burke, who is the founder of the #MeToo movement, has written a memoir that belongs on your shelf next to the works of Maya Angelou. This memoir reminded me of "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings" in its raw honesty and fantastic writing. I listened to the audiobook, and Burke's narration is heartbreaking and a joy to listen to at the same time. Sections that I thought were particularly interesting were Burke's stories about her complicated and sometimes fraught relationship with her mother and the section where she describes her discovery of the work of Maya Angelou and how she fell in love with it and saw herself in it. I love that Tarana Burke never pretends to have been a perfect person and is committed to writing a real memoir with her highs, lows, wins and losses with honesty. If you have ever been interested in this woman and / or how the Me Too movement came to be, you should pick this up

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Racism, Misogyny, Drug abuse, Drug use, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Domestic abuse, and Pedophilia

Moderate: Medical content and Incest

Minor: Child death, Miscarriage, Gaslighting, and Pregnancy

amandas_bookshelf's review

emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Rape, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Pedophilia, Toxic friendship, Sexism, Racism, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Misogyny, Incest, Gaslighting, and Emotional abuse