garbage_mcsmutly 's review for:

Thunder Song by Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe

4.25

emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

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This was a lovely collection of essays from a queer indigenous (Coast Salish) author. It explores the author's identity and experiences--as a queer person, a two spirit person, a person of mixed race, a runaway, a punk kid, a Coast Salish person in a colonized world. It's an easily digestible selection of fairly short essays. I know she has a memoir as well that probably gets into these ideas in a lot more depth, but it was nice to have this more accessible entry point into her writing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Grief, Medical trauma, Abortion, Colonisation

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Biphobia, Drug use, Genocide, Miscarriage, Racism, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Classism, Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Religious bigotry