Reviews tagging 'Police brutality'

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

3 reviews

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

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