Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Black Girl, Call Home by Jasmine Mans

14 reviews

staronsaturn's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

3.75

very informative and reflective on my personal life. the part that stood out most was def the "Bodies Lost in History" abt women being non-consensually used for medical practice and abt forgotten/unknown women:(( i liked the mentions of growing up in blackgirlhood tho, very nostaligic. idk overall a very fine book, i learned, i teared up, i smiled, i empathized, i sighed. id reread a few of the poems if i got the chance i think. jasmine's a great writer and knows how to grab your attention with descriptive storytelling and rlly knows how to set a scene which i appreciate. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Sexual content, Slavery, Racism, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Police brutality and Violence

Minor: Homophobia and Lesbophobia

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

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

introvertsbookclub's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.5

My favourite kind of poetry – accessible and direct but full of so much emotion. It was difficult not to underline every verse;  there were so many moments that had me reaching for my pencil, rereading, reading out loud and then just sitting with.

Rather than being divided into sections, the poems naturally moved from one to the next, being clustered together by subject and picking up recurring themes across the collection. Together the poems explored racism, misogyny, homophobia, violence, family, motherhood, love, heartbreak, pop culture, and so many other strands of life. Through their poems Mans questioned injustice and cruelty, but also celebrated community and change. The range of topics and perspectives created an expansive insight into life as a Black woman and an incredibly impactful reading experience.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual violence, Racism, and Violence

michaelion's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective tense fast-paced

4.25

My girlfriend gave me this for my birthday, now I gotta give it back to him so they can read it too! 🥰

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Lesbophobia, Child death, Gun violence, Grief, Sexual violence, Rape, Misogyny, Homophobia, Death, Miscarriage, Racism, Police brutality, and Violence

shaerikireads's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Violence, and Homophobia

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