Reviews tagging 'Rape'

Black Girl, Call Home by Jasmine Mans

44 reviews

nanduh's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense fast-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Police brutality, and Rape

Moderate: Lesbophobia and Homophobia

Minor: Death

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

bladebailey's review against another edition

emotional reflective fast-paced

5.0

Jasmine Mans' poetry collection, titled Black Girl, Call Home, meditates on the themes of Black identity, womanhood and feminism, intersectionalism, homosexuality, rape, institutionalized violence, and much more. Suitable for adult readers of any level of familiarity to poetry, Mans' writing style is blunt and meaningful without overly obscuring the punchline. I personally endorse listening to Black Girl, Call Home as an audiobook (narrated by the author herself), because poetry is a living breathing art form and should be consumed as such. As someone who typically struggles with poetry, I genuinely enjoyed every piece within Mans' beloved and utterly necessary collection.

My favorite poems from the collection:
—Momma Said Dyke at the Kitchen Table
—1,000 Questions on Gender Roles for a Lesbian
—Whitney: Fairy Godmother, Whitney: 'Boy, Can That Girl Sang', Whitney: Gone, Whitney: Hologram 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Police brutality, Homophobia, and Racism

thehomiemona's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Lesbophobia, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual violence, Homophobia, Police brutality, and Rape

anniereads221's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Rape, Violence, Racial slurs, Grief, Police brutality, Blood, Sexual violence, Lesbophobia, Gun violence, and Racism

Moderate: Cancer and Death

Minor: Slavery and Transphobia

jaiari12's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Rape, Lesbophobia, Racism, Slavery, Violence, and Sexual violence

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

salemander's review against another edition

5.0

gorgeous and heartbreaking poetry. this book is a love letter to black women and community and what it means to be queer

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Rape, and Racism

brandiereadsbooks's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Gun violence, Rape, Sexual assault, Murder, Slavery, Homophobia, and Lesbophobia

dananana's review against another edition

emotional reflective

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Police brutality, Rape, and Racism

Minor: Self harm