Reviews tagging 'Gun violence'

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis

16 reviews

rachelfayreads's review against another edition

challenging dark informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Lesbophobia, Antisemitism, Child death, Colonisation, Racism, Xenophobia, War, Transphobia, Slavery, Sexual violence, Sexism, Religious bigotry, Rape, Police brutality, Misogyny, Islamophobia, Homophobia, Hate crime, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Genocide, Domestic abuse, Deportation, Classism, and Death

juleseliasw's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Sexual assault, Homophobia, War, Suicide, Xenophobia, Slavery, Genocide, Hate crime, Gun violence, Colonisation, Classism, Racism, Murder, Islamophobia, Violence, and Police brutality

c_dmckinney's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Transphobia, Grief, Violence, Classism, Police brutality, and Racism

bootsmom3's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Genocide, Forced institutionalization, Violence, Police brutality, Murder, Racism, Sexism, Slavery, Transphobia, War, Confinement, and Misogyny

Moderate: Colonisation

Minor: Animal cruelty and Ableism

ms_mitchell's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring fast-paced

5.0

This is a very political book dealing with intersectionality. I don't agree with everything she says, but I respect her and especially how much she updated her attitudes with the times particularly in terms of gender. She is the the exact opposite of the "Ok, Boomer". .

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism and Racism

Moderate: Ableism, Alcohol, Colonisation, Toxic relationship, Slavery, Addiction, Blood, Child death, Sexual violence, Domestic abuse, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Physical abuse, Rape, Death, Gun violence, Islamophobia, Child abuse, Hate crime, Trafficking, Bullying, Homophobia, Transphobia, Drug abuse, Sexual assault, Classism, War, Violence, and Medical content

booksandteatime's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Slavery, Violence, Islamophobia, Colonisation, War, Gun violence, Misogyny, Transphobia, Xenophobia, Genocide, Racism, Death, Hate crime, and Police brutality

lady_of_the_labyrinth's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Police brutality, and Racism

Moderate: Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, and Colonisation

tinyoceankingdoms's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism

Minor: Gun violence

chronicacademia's review against another edition

informative fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use, Hate crime, Rape, Sexism, Racial slurs, Sexual assault, Slavery, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Misogyny, Classism, Colonisation, Cultural appropriation, Racism, Physical abuse, and Police brutality

fromthefoxhole's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

So I listened to the audiobook, and let me say up front: Angela Davis could read me her grocery list and I'd enjoy it. Every word is measured, pronunciations were clearly studied in advance, and her timbre is warm and authoritative. 

4.5 - half star removed mostly because this has multiple chapters that are speeches she has given at various conferences and events. In a few cases I've either watched the speech on YouTube or read it as a one off, and some of the material overlaps in a way that makes it slightly less impactful overall. I think it could also have used a final chapter that acted as a final summarization/call to further education at the very least. 

Despite this slight grievance, I think this book does well in its undertaking to relate struggle across location, gender, race, religion, nationality, or whatever divides humanity might face. Davis utilizes the wealth of own-voices books, movements across history, and anecdotes from her own past to present to the reader a framework within which we can find our foothold as activists. She speaks on trans and queer liberation, the occupation of Palestine, the ongoing struggle of Black people and people of color in the US. She briefly touches on disability rights and mental health institutionalization as well. She never shies away from the fact that there might be more points of intersectionality than previously understood, and I think that openness serves the reader well in providing external context to her works. 

Anyway, I love Angela Davis. I've added so many books from her references here to my own reading list, and I'm excited to get cracking on those.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Slavery, Gun violence, Domestic abuse, Colonisation, Deportation, Transphobia, Racism, Sexual harassment, Police brutality, Sexual violence, Classism, Sexism, Mental illness, and Hate crime