Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

27 reviews

charlottejones952's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad slow-paced

2.0

I'll admit that I didn't complete the last 2 chapters but this was because of the content. This book is enlightening but tough so I don't know who I'd recommend to. Discussion of care work and ableism were fascinating but the trauma and surviverhood was too blunt and difficult to read for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Incest, Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Ableism, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Grief, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racism, and Transphobia

tinyplanet's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Emotional abuse, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Ableism, Child abuse, Sexual harassment, Chronic illness, Classism, Death, and Grief

Minor: Rape, Transphobia, Violence, Incest, Racism, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Body shaming, Bullying, Colonisation, Cursing, Gaslighting, Hate crime, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic friendship, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Terminal illness, Fatphobia, and Sexual harassment

lily1304's review

hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

I read this to learn more about disability justice, which I did, but I also learned different ways of thinking about caring for myself and others. I definitely want to reread this later.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Physical abuse, Suicide attempt, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Child abuse, Mental illness, and Suicide

jdieperink's review

challenging reflective medium-paced

5.0

It’s been a few days since I finished this and I still can’t quite wrap my hands around what I thought of it other than that I loved it. 

It’s a book that is simultaneously not for me and everything I need. It’s not an introductory text to disability justice but maybe it should be?

Since it is a collection of essays, it is occasionally repetitive but that doesn’t take away from the collection and how loving it is. 

I’ve seen a few other reviews that mention this but this book is not medical advice and I think the author does make sure to cover that, even when it’s more concrete tips. 

CW: abuse, suicide, ableism, misogyny, racism and probably more. Take care of yourself. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, and Ableism

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Colonisation, Domestic abuse, Incest, Misogyny, Racism, and Child abuse

Minor: Sexual violence and Vomit

porcupinetree's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, Misogyny, Ableism, Medical trauma, Murder, Rape, Racism, Drug use, and Grief

sapphire's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Ableism, and Chronic illness

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Child abuse

brighteyed's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

4.75

such a powerful book and really helped me reconsider dis/ability! i’m not necessarily the biggest fan of some stylistic choices but this is an amazing book :)

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Content Warnings

Minor: Ableism, Child abuse, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Violence

rebeccafarren's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Sexism, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, and Misogyny

Moderate: Bullying, Incest, Racism, Gaslighting, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Religious bigotry, Child abuse, Excrement, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Transphobia, Forced institutionalization, Torture, and Vomit

laurareads87's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

I am grateful that the author wrote this book and that I had the opportunity to read it.  Care Work is urgent, crucial, challenging, confronting, and so so needed.  I was deeply personally affected by some of the chapters, feeling like personal experiences and feelings I've had were named in ways that I appreciate and will carry with me.  I also feel like I've learned a lot, including about areas that I can do better, and will bring that learning into the work that I do -- I'm glad for those lessons, too.  Highly, highly recommend.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Emotional abuse, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Sexism, Racism, Medical trauma, Ableism, Child abuse, Physical abuse, Body shaming, Grief, Death, Xenophobia, Biphobia, Fatphobia, and Homophobia

Moderate: Self harm, Drug abuse, Incest, and Rape

emilykval's review

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Colonisation, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Incest, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Xenophobia, Violence, Vomit, Transphobia, Toxic relationship, Terminal illness, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, and Self harm