Reviews tagging 'Grief'

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

17 reviews

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

selkiehusband's review

emotional hopeful informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness and Grief

Moderate: Ableism, Child abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

jouljet's review

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Sexual assault, Mental illness, Incest, Grief, Chronic illness, and Bullying

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

lexiereadsbooks's review

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Child abuse, Grief, Incest, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, and Sexual violence

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