Reviews tagging 'Sexual harassment'

Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara

6 reviews

drought_season's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Child abuse, Child death, Violence, Colonisation, Misogyny, Slavery, Genocide, and War

Minor: Sexual harassment, Rape, and Sexual assault

moon_peach's review against another edition

dark emotional informative medium-paced

5.0

Heartbreaking but important to read to understand what we are contributing to. Unfortunately things are getting worse but if enough people learn about the real abuses happening we might be able to cause change.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Xenophobia, Violence, Torture, Child death, Trafficking, and Sexual harassment

ecn's review against another edition

5.0

Mandatory reading!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Racism, Child abuse, Grief, Gun violence, Infertility, Sexism, Alcoholism, Misogyny, Violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Child death, Chronic illness, Classism, Death, Sexual harassment, Miscarriage, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual assault, Slavery, Body horror, Colonisation, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Trafficking, Cancer, Death of parent, and Genocide

caseycdelima's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative tense medium-paced

4.5

I would give this book a 4.5, but mostly because I listened to it as an audiobook and so it was sometimes hard to follow some of the acronyms and names mentioned. Despite this, I believe this is such an important telling of a story that is not well known among the Western world but something we all are complicit in. The people of the Congo are still wrapped in brutal slavery that speeds forward due to green energy and technological advances hailed in wealthy countries. Kara does an excellent job balancing historical facts, statistics, and personal stories of the Congolese artisan miners and I was horrified by this account and am even more interested in learning more about how we can demand change and freedom for the Congolese.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Slavery, Sexual violence, Violence, and Xenophobia

shay43geek's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Grief, Blood, Colonisation, and Death

Moderate: Violence, Sexism, and Sexual harassment

aiyam's review against another edition

challenging dark informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Murder, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual violence, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Classism, Colonisation, Death of parent, Slavery, Trafficking, Police brutality, Violence, and Confinement