Reviews tagging 'Colonisation'

Disintegrate/Dissociate by Arielle Twist

7 reviews

tenderbench's review

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Sexual content

Moderate: Colonisation

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

urfavpunk's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Transphobia, Sexual content, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Death and Colonisation

foldingthepage_kayleigh's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

Freedom is safety in its truest form, a luxury not ours.

This book has been on my tbr shelf for 3 years after having been recommended to me by almost everyone I know. I’m so glad I finally picked it up! These poems elicited a deep well of feeling from me and I found myself crying at many points. As a prairie dweller, I appreciated the care and beauty with which Twist described the landscape and her relationship to it. “Iskwêw” was a stand out for me, how she expressed gratitude and pride in Nêhiyaw sisters for those shared threads of connection warmed my heart.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Sexual violence, Transphobia, Sexual assault, and Violence

Minor: Colonisation

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

ghostkey's review

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Sexual content, and Colonisation

Moderate: Rape