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kdburton's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
I'm asking you to entertain that wish I made earlier: to treat this like a two-way conversation. My dear reader, you've caught on by now that this is not really about sex work. Sex work is only one of many, many things that we learn we are not to talk about, one of many things we've been asked (but never agreed) to keep silent about.
This is about the labour of becoming whole and letting yourself see a wider panorama. It's about allowing yourself to listen to broader conversations-with your voice included-to visit the places that have been made silent or small or wounded.
Locate yourself within the bigger, puzzling, and sometimes hazardous world around you. You are invited to do this work. You are already doing this work. What combination of facts and lies represent you? What spectrum of identities do you hold dear while the larger world tells you that these identities don't even exist? What personal and public rituals do you perform to be seen? What truths must you create to fill the gaps? And what will you (you and I both) do with the knowledge we have (or haven't) been given?
Dawn’s poetry has spoken write to my heart since I order a copy of My Art Is Killing Me to my door (because the cover was cool) in spring 2020. Turns out her prose does, too.
— library book
Dawn’s poetry has spoken write to my heart since I order a copy of My Art Is Killing Me to my door (because the cover was cool) in spring 2020. Turns out her prose does, too.
— library book
biobooksbirdsnerd's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.5
Content Warnings
Moderate: Religious bigotry, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Violence, Sexual violence, and Sexual content
Minor: Suicide, Stalking, and Trafficking
rustbeltjessie's review against another edition
5.0
The writing in this book is both sublime and gritty, and it will make you cry. Especially if you are queer, a queer femme, or have ever been a sex worker; especially if you are all three.
queerandweird's review against another edition
4.0
My only complaint is that it was too short, I could spend many more hours reading Amber Dawn's stories and poetry. Wonderful work from a modern queer feminist who discusses gritty, titillating and sometimes terrifying stories of her work as a Canadian sex worker.
kcampbellll's review against another edition
4.0
I read this book for school in parts, however ended up reading the whole thing. It has a mix of poetry, storytelling type format, & uses second point of view towards the end. It was the brutal truth of being a sex worker and there’s a lot of graphic scenes in it, however it really gives perspective. In relation to sex work in the memoir, it deals with topic of belonging and LGTBQ+. A really great and interesting read.
jp_riemersma's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.25
ljpapp's review against another edition
4.0
Poetry tends to go over my head, but the essays in this collection are, for the most part, very beautiful.