Reviews tagging 'Cancer'

The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

3 reviews

whiteflowerose's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Ableism, Medical trauma, Confinement, Chronic illness, Grief, Pandemic/Epidemic, Xenophobia, and Medical content

Minor: Cancer, Forced institutionalization, Classism, Death, and Bullying

avisreadsandreads's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic, Chronic illness, Ableism, and Grief

Moderate: Mental illness, Misogyny, Medical trauma, Body shaming, Colonisation, and Racism

Minor: Confinement, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Violence, Cancer, Sexual assault, Suicide attempt, Forced institutionalization, Rape, Fatphobia, Murder, Police brutality, Child abuse, Classism, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Suicide, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Sexual violence

careinthelibrary's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

 Holy shit, this is OUTSTANDING. Every essay gave me a new perspective, new impression, new things to ponder and grow from. Can't recommend enough, I loved this even more than the author's previous Care Work which I also loved. I can't wait to revisit this and glean even more wisdom from it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Pandemic/Epidemic, Chronic illness, Grief, Medical content, Ableism, and Racism

Moderate: Child abuse, Fatphobia, Hate crime, Police brutality, Panic attacks/disorders, Religious bigotry, Terminal illness, Cancer, Genocide, Homophobia, Murder, and Forced institutionalization

Minor: Death of parent, Excrement, Self harm, Abortion, Suicide, and Transphobia