Reviews tagging 'Hate crime'

Call Us What We Carry, by Amanda Gorman

5 reviews

pointeshoebookworm's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: War, Slavery, Racial slurs, Racism, Police brutality, Gun violence, and Hate crime

sophtanda's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

Really enjoyed it, it definitely felt reflective of the start of covid and the first lockdown, it was also very interesting as the style of the poems changed making each to feel refreshing 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Medical content, Medical trauma, Racism, War, Grief, Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, and Police brutality

michaelion's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

Oh yeah, this book is goonna go down in history for, at the very least, almost perfectly capturing the feelings we had during the moments we lived through between November 2019 and August 2021. I'm always a sucker for time travel in movies and tv, but mixing the distant past with the present? More than that, using the direct words of the past as if they were said in the present?! Future historians, it's all here. It's all there. It's all real. It made me uncomfortable a couple times but that's because the wound is still fresh. As said in some of the poems, it's still ongoing. I'm sure I'll read this again in 10 20 30 60 years with a familiar hindsight and vague rememberance, and probably feel as sick to my stomach as I feel now. But, not a bad sick. A sad sick. Mourning sickness. We'll never not mourn, even if we forget. But with this book at least a part of us will always remember.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Police brutality, Death, Medical content, Racism, Confinement, Grief, Hate crime, Medical trauma, and Xenophobia

thereadingnurse2021's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Racism, Slavery, Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, and Police brutality

Moderate: Chronic illness, Classism, Mass/school shootings, Colonisation, and Medical trauma

There are many content warnings for this set of poems, but that is because it is a cry for change. How can we ever make the world a better place if we do not first confront the wrongs that have been put into it? Yes, this text hurts. Yes, it will make you angry. But that’s because it’s supposed to. It is meant to inspire action.

liwolf's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Colonisation, Chronic illness, Death, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Slavery, Violence, and War