Reviews tagging 'Hate crime'

Black Girl, Call Home by Jasmine Mans

10 reviews

moriahleigh's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

Moderate: Homophobia, Mental illness, Violence, Hate crime, Sexual violence, Grief, Lesbophobia, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, Gun violence, Murder, and Rape

Minor: Self harm

sup3r_xn0va_maya's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

5.0

This was a quick listen that I plan to go back and listen to this audiobook again. I really enjoyed the poems in this book, they were so moving and they perfectly depicted life as a Black queer femme in the US. Some of them were hard to get through,

the one about Sandra Bland made me tear up, the one about the mentally ill victims of force sterilizations made me cry.

Actually, a lot of the poems on this book left me feeling sensitive and vulnerable. 

Overall I'm going to give this 5 out of 5 stars 
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Hate crime, Violence, Sexual violence, Murder, Racism, Sexual assault, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Biphobia, Police brutality, Death, Homophobia, and Transphobia

ashlightgrayson's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring sad tense medium-paced

5.0

This was a motivating, impactful, and (for me) relatable poetry anthology. I heard it narrated in audiobook format by the author and I think it is probably the best way to consume this. You feel the pain, suffering, and joy of the narrative voice for each poem. Hearing it feels like seeing the world through the eyes and experiences of black/queer individuals whose stories deserve to take up space and be heard. I'm hoping to find more poetry collections like this. It has been quite some time since I've sat down with something like this that I did not want to put down.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Homophobia, Cursing, and Slavery

Moderate: Mental illness, Eating disorder, Drug use, Drug abuse, Transphobia, Biphobia, Addiction, Suicidal thoughts, Misogyny, Miscarriage, Gun violence, Death, Suicide, Self harm, Fatphobia, Domestic abuse, Bullying, Religious bigotry, Hate crime, and Body shaming

fengxin's review

challenging emotional reflective fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Racism, Religious bigotry, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Medical trauma, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Hate crime, and Gun violence

Moderate: Self harm

yellow_star's review against another edition

inspiring sad medium-paced

4.0

This probably is too much for many teens to read and this is mainly an adult book.  Unless you're sadly already dealing with this heavy stuff in your own life. 

 There's a lot of sad in this, and it's not really a beautiful restful poetry book it's more of a mourning and rebellion book. The author discusses human rights violations against African Americans and queer people and  women, writes poetic responses to celebrities like Kanye and Serena and Michelle Obama, and does some experimenting with form like a word search for women murdered as a racist hate crime. Even poems that should be happy like the love of a mother or romantic partner are uneasy and fearful of future pain and violence. The poems about abused slaves and rape are too real and painful to read. Overall a good thing to read, but choose a reading time when you have some emotional bandwidth free to process it. 

There's also some sections on institutional abuse of the physically and mentally disabled. And some standing with missing or murdered indigenous women. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Racial slurs

Moderate: Physical abuse, Death, Confinement, Grief, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Addiction, Homophobia, Cultural appropriation, Classism, Child death, Child abuse, Body horror, Blood, Rape, Violence, Sexual violence, Sexism, Religious bigotry, Police brutality, Misogyny, Miscarriage, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Mass/school shootings, Hate crime, Gun violence, Forced institutionalization, Death of parent, and Ableism

kyrstin_p1989's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

Beautiful poems about all the ways Black women lose, repossess, fight for, love, and leave their homes, both figurative and literal. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Death, Gaslighting, Grief, Hate crime, Lesbophobia, Misogyny, Police brutality, Racism, Sexism, and Toxic relationship

ollie_again's review against another edition

emotional reflective fast-paced

5.0

 

You will not call yourself a ______
because her body was made
for you,
and how dare she
act like
she owns herself.

I'm usually not much for poetry, but this is phenomenal 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Hate crime, Lesbophobia, Rape, Racism, and Medical trauma

Minor: Murder, Police brutality, Gun violence, and Transphobia

edithcazares02's review

dark emotional informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

This was absolutely powerful, Insightful and at times a little triggering. But I couldn’t put it down once I got going, I admit that I ugly cried about 90% of this book. The underlying messages were incredible and done with such beauty at times. 

This book will stay with me for a long time 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Hate crime, Homophobia, Torture, Transphobia, Grief, Police brutality, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, and Trafficking

emzhay's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Hate crime, Homophobia, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Racism, Violence, and Rape

danaleelin's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Gore, Grief, Hate crime, Homophobia, Medical trauma, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Police brutality, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, and Violence