Reviews tagging 'Racism'

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde

52 reviews

meilanon's review

challenging hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Sexism

Minor: Rape

bookedbymadeline's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

Thought provoking and eye opening collection of essays/stories! I liked some chapters more than others, the ones I didn’t like mostly because they were difficult to understand at times language-wise and with concepts (such as the use of erotic chapter). There were times where no matter how often I reread the sentences, I couldn’t wrap my head around what was being said.

Most of the essays are from the 80s it seems but they’re still so relevant to today! I think this should be required reading in schools, especially in the US. I learned so much that I did not learn in school about US history and the government’s actions abroad. I marked a lot of pages and passages! I look forward to reading more from Lorde.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Racism, Misogyny, and Violence

Moderate: War and Colonisation

Minor: Cancer

scarroll178's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

So well written. Especially loved Uses of the Erotic and The Uses of Anger. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Murder, Death, Child death, and Rape

geo_07's review

emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Homophobia, Racism, and Misogyny

Minor: War

introverted_reads's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Murder, Sexism, Violence, Racial slurs, and Cancer

Moderate: Police brutality, Classism, Infertility, Colonisation, Hate crime, and Lesbophobia

allegraallegra's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

joensign's review

challenging emotional informative slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Lesbophobia, Racism, Homophobia, Violence, and Misogyny

Minor: Cancer

_meganrose's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

A must read. Audre Lorde is beyond talented. Her writing is so powerful, moving, and beautiful. Brought me to tears.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism and Cancer

streberkatze's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

I'm so glad I finally got around to reading this essay collection. The essays are profoundly insightful and have lost nothing of their relevance since the time of their writing in the 1970s and 1980s. Especially "Learning from the 60s" really struck a chord with me. Audre Lorde truly is one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th century.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Violence, and Racism

kay4eva's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Racism, and Sexism

Minor: War