Reviews tagging 'Excrement'

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

3 reviews

rionstorm's review

challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

3.5

There's some really good ideas and concrete resources in this book. There's also some wonderful utopian imagining and goal setting, which feels motivational and helped expand my thinking. 

It reads like a mix of a memoir, academic theory, and a practical guide, which was interesting. I struggled to get through certain sections that felt a little repetitive, or were very hyper-specific to Canada and the USA. The intense, firm narration style makes sense and fits with such vital subject matter, but for me became a bit overwhelming after a while, in the same way listening to a lot of impassioned speeches one after the other can make the words being said start to bounce off you a bit. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Excrement, Racism, Addiction, Ableism, Sexual violence, Rape, Child abuse, Terminal illness, Suicide attempt, Medical trauma, Medical content, Transphobia, Self harm, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Colonisation, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Deportation, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Classism, Pedophilia, Violence, Cultural appropriation, Vomit, and Cancer

Minor: Religious bigotry and Stalking

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

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