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thymiantea's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Genocide, Homophobia, Racism, Suicide, Mass/school shootings, and Colonisation
Moderate: Death, Hate crime, Sexism, Transphobia, Violence, Police brutality, and Grief
savvylit's review against another edition
4.5
This brilliant book blends memoir with honest declarations about memory, indigenous & queer identity, and colonial systems. Belcourt's experience as a poet is instantly clear in the ways that he describes his life and the world around him. Several sentences stopped me in my tracks and made me have to pause to digest. Things like "sometimes I'm a shoreline the water of memory drags its palm across" or "has anyone ever managed not to mould the body into an archive of their own degradation?" I'll keep thinking about A History of My Brief Body for a long, long time.
Graphic: Homophobia, Violence, and Grief
scmiller's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Body shaming, Genocide, Homophobia, Racism, Grief, and Colonisation
Moderate: Child abuse, Hate crime, Mental illness, Misogyny, Medical content, Medical trauma, Cultural appropriation, Abandonment, and Classism
tenderbench's review
5.0
Moderate: Death, Gun violence, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, and Colonisation
maggiefae's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Genocide, Homophobia, Racism, Sexual content, Suicide, Transphobia, Violence, Grief, Mass/school shootings, and Colonisation
jessie_h's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Homophobia, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Colonisation
Moderate: Sexual content, Grief, and Cultural appropriation
Minor: Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Violence, and Murder
readingwithkaitlyn's review against another edition
3.0
Graphic: Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, and Sexual harassment
Moderate: Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Colonisation
Minor: Infidelity, Rape, and Transphobia
ecn's review against another edition
Graphic: Fatphobia, Genocide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, and Colonisation
balfies's review
4.5
Belcourt uses language to charter unnavigable oceans of queer and NDN experience within a capitalist white supremacist heteropatriarchy.
Feel like I'm a bug on a forest floor with my mouth open in nutrient rich dirt, there's so much going on in this. If you're a fan of Ocean Vuong or Ellen van Neerven this is a must.
Graphic: Genocide, Homophobia, Racism, Sexual content, Suicide, Violence, Grief, Murder, and Colonisation
moranguinhos's review against another edition
4.5
Moderate: Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Racism, Suicide, Transphobia, Police brutality, Grief, Murder, and Colonisation