Reviews tagging 'Sexual violence'

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

4 reviews

culpeppper's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective slow-paced

5.0

This was a beautiful series of essays. Truly changed how I view care work, myself, those around me, and recontextualized how I view the world. I cried, I grieved, I laughed, I felt held by these essays while listening to the author read her own book in her own voice. I'm very excited to read Care Work, when I have proper time to process it. For now, I am recommending this to others who want to grow their care, empathy, desire for change, and introduce them to disability justice, specifically because Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha seems to have shared a piece of her soul with the greater world, and it would be a shame if it's beauty wasn't shared. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Death, Terminal illness, Pandemic/Epidemic, Death of parent, Medical trauma, and Chronic illness

Moderate: Fatphobia, Racism, Child abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Misogyny, and Medical content

arlingtonchamberofgay's review

emotional funny informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

Leah has a way of making me feel seen, in all of my AuDHD, queer, enby, disabled splendor. On the days when the everyday ableism and fear of the MIC neglecting me to the point of death, I come back to their and DJ’s words. And I remember I’m not alone, I can not only imagine a disabled future, but help to make it a reality. There will always be work to do, but we can at least live a life worth while at the same time.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Death of parent, Grief, Racism, Suicide, Rape, and Transphobia

Minor: Police brutality and Sexual violence

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

3va's review

challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Sexual violence, Rape, Murder, Medical trauma, and Child abuse