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tinyjude's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
I usually find it hard to enjoy and connect with modern poetry's format and style, but there are many incredible, raw, heart-wrecking poems here that I enjoyed and hurt me in ways poetry hasn't in such a long time.
The poems are explicit in nature and denounce/reflect about various topics, mainly the reality of woc and trans women of colour, colonialism, racism, xenophobia, homophobia and transphobia, sexual assault and violence (particularly against asian gay boys, trans women and asian trans women), white feminism, cultural memory... it isn't an easy read and it will definitely make your stomach churn at many points, but it is so worth it.
For many more poetry by cis and trans women of colour.
The poems are explicit in nature and denounce/reflect about various topics, mainly the reality of woc and trans women of colour, colonialism, racism, xenophobia, homophobia and transphobia, sexual assault and violence (particularly against asian gay boys, trans women and asian trans women), white feminism, cultural memory... it isn't an easy read and it will definitely make your stomach churn at many points, but it is so worth it.
For many more poetry by cis and trans women of colour.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Xenophobia, Dysphoria, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Racial slurs, Blood, Body shaming, Hate crime, Racism, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Sexual harassment, and Sexual violence
the_vegan_bookworm's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
5.0
A truly beautiful poetry collection. This is so raw, so intense and so full of emotion that it was hard to put down. Some poems that really struck my emotionally were:
- between friends
- girlboy, you femme femme fabulous
- what the moon saw
- the funny thing about violence: six meditations on a theme
- trauma is not sacred
Content Warnings
Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Racial slurs, Racism, Child abuse, Sexual content, Transphobia, and Violence
Moderate: Self harm
Minor: Drug use
andy78's review against another edition
challenging
dark
reflective
fast-paced
4.0
Folk-immersed, gloriously raw, evocatively intimate and angrily grandiose.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Sexual content, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence
Minor: Suicide
gabriellejane's review
challenging
dark
reflective
There are a lot of content warnings for this tiny book of poems. I did enjoy quite a few poems, but I don't know how I would rate it so I left it blank for the time being.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Sexual assault, Transphobia, and Violence
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