Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Black Girl, Call Home by Jasmine Mans

8 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

midnightreads1803's review

dark emotional informative sad tense fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Toxic relationship, Violence, Sexual violence, Transphobia, Sexual assault, Racism, Police brutality, and Mental illness

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

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

queenshrike's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring relaxing sad tense medium-paced

4.75

This is not a book that I think can be read in one sitting. I had to pause and come back so many times. Not just out of sadness or anger but because a phrase, a line, a stanza, a poem hit me in a deep place and I needed a moment or several really. I adore this work.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abortion, Addiction, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Gun violence, Mental illness, Murder, Racism, Bullying, Classism, Drug use, Grief, Alcohol, Colonisation, Death, Lesbophobia, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Homophobia, Police brutality, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Slavery

hngisreading's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Grief, Infertility, Medical content, Mental illness, Misogyny, Rape, Lesbophobia, Medical trauma, Murder, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Slavery, Transphobia, and Violence

yogilawyer's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Racial slurs, Racism, Medical trauma, Mental illness, and Police brutality