Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

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

17 reviews

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

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

achingallover's review

challenging emotional informative reflective slow-paced

3.0

Rating may be revised later.
Part VI was really good and gave me a lot to think about, but other parts were repetitive, reductive, bad advice (eg regarding medication) or, just, lots of acronyms that weren't explained (the irony that it discusses making writing less academic to be accessible is not lost on me).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Incest, Medical content, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, and Vomit

kelseyland's review

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

An incredible collection of essays that put forth a radical, transformative vision of disability justice that centers the voices and needs of disabled people, and particularly folks who are queer, trans, Black, indigenous, and POC. The essays range from the theory-based (what does healing look like when it is done by and for disabled people, and what are its goals?) to the practical (hacks for going on a book tour as a disabled person). Even if you  have a baseline familiarity with disability justice, this book is likely to make you consider ideas, perspectives, and/or forms of oppression that you haven't before.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Suicidal thoughts, Chronic illness, and Death

Moderate: Incest, Suicide, Medical content, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Homophobia, Racism, Misogyny, Mental illness, and Panic attacks/disorders

emsim's review

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism

Moderate: Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Incest, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Vomit