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

15 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

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

bashsbooks's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

This book is incredible - I am going to need my own copy to review and annotate. There were so many different important points that Davis made that I would like to note down, so many quotes that I would like to let mull in my brain, so many connections that are extremely relevant in our current moment - even though most of this text was written around a decade ago. Some key points that resonated with me quite a bit (and that kept coming up) were: the distinction between civil rights and freedom, the idea of what a terrorist is (and the political slant inherent in that word), the way that collectives of black women have long been a force of change in this country, and how to build an international struggle and get people relating to problems that seem abstract and far away. 

If I were only reviewing the text, this would easily be 5 stars. But since I listened to it as an audiobook, I feel like I should point out that the interview section is a bit confusing because it is ALL read by Davis, and sometimes it's difficult to tell when she is reading the interviewer's questions versus her own answers. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Islamophobia, Classism, Racism, Violence, Death, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Genocide, War, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Slavery, Deportation, Police brutality, Colonisation, and Forced institutionalization

Minor: Child abuse, Homophobia, Ableism, Child death, Domestic abuse, and Transphobia

puttingwingsonwords's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Police brutality, Colonisation, and Racism

Minor: Death, Sexual violence, Domestic abuse, Genocide, and Hate crime

soniajoy98's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Genocide, Hate crime, and Racism

Moderate: Police brutality, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Slavery

Minor: Classism, Torture, Xenophobia, Forced institutionalization, and War

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

caelinsullivan's review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Colonisation, and Racism

dragongirl271's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, War, Gun violence, Police brutality, Sexual violence, and Violence

ofbooksandechos's review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation and Racism

Moderate: Genocide, Forced institutionalization, Classism, and Police brutality

Minor: Slavery, Sexual violence, and Transphobia

effortlesslybookishbre_'s review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Deportation, Genocide, Islamophobia, Sexual violence, Police brutality, Racism, Transphobia, and Xenophobia