Reviews tagging 'Racism'

Disintegrate/Dissociate by Arielle Twist

9 reviews

cronareads's review against another edition

emotional reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Transphobia, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

venetiana's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Transphobia

Moderate: Sexual violence and Racism

readingwithkaitlyn's review against another edition

emotional fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Homophobia, Violence, Infidelity, Transphobia, and Rape

Minor: Genocide, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Grief, Colonisation, Racism, Blood, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Abandonment, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Sexism, and Gaslighting

butlerebecca's review

dark tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Sexual violence, and Racism

puttingwingsonwords's review

emotional reflective fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Fatphobia, Racism, Sexism, Rape, Transphobia, Sexual content, and Sexual assault

inamerata's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad

2.0

I appreciate Twist's craft, but I didn't enjoy most of this collection. My favorites were "Chords," "In Dying I Become," and "I am the Boundless Space between Oceans of Water and Wheat." The imagery and emotion in them were striking, and stood out to me the most.

Unfortunately, many of the poems are graphically about sex with men. This is already unappealing, and then they were repetitive in their language, tone, and emotional beats. It got boring. It's also hard to feel sympathy when someone knowingly cheats with someone and feels ire toward the third party, so huge chunks of the book just didn't land.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Transphobia

Moderate: Colonisation, Rape, and Racism

Minor: Infidelity

avisreadsandreads's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Sexual violence, Transphobia, Racism, Colonisation, Rape, and Sexual assault

gay's review

challenging emotional medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Sexual violence, Transphobia, and Sexual content

andreiaoh's review

dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

i wasn't going to read today because i didn't feel like it but then i remembered it was world book day and i should probably read something. 

and i am SO glad i did. this poetry collection was beautifully written and beyond powerful. not ashamed to say i cried. stunning.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Racism, and Transphobia

Minor: Death