Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

5 reviews

thedisabledreader's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Blood, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Incest, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Child abuse, Rape, Sexism, Bullying, Chronic illness, Classism, Cultural appropriation, Emotional abuse, Racism, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, and Violence

arachnophobia's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.0

The first bunch of chapters kind of felt like the same lines and events over and over again but by the time I got to the end of this book I was so moved. This author is brilliant and this book is an example of the power she holds as a writer and visionary. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Incest

embervleo's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abortion, Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Grief, Biphobia, Cancer, Classism, Transphobia, Abandonment, Blood, Bullying, Colonisation, Ableism, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Cultural appropriation, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Incest, Mental illness, Racism, Xenophobia, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Misogyny, Police brutality, Sexual harassment, and Violence

courtneyfalling's review

emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced

4.0

This made me cry cathartically, especially near the ending. I think so many childhood trauma and recovery memoirs follow a very linear arc, describing traumatic events in detail for presumably non-traumatized but fascinated audiences, then end with an acceptance of traditional, usually heteronormative and relatively depoliticized new family life. And they rarely get into what happens if trauma follows you, continues to pop up from triggers, changes who you are or what you want to find. Instead, this memoir focused a lot on trying to build a life, on the actual, messy complexity of "healing." I want to believe that sensitive, confused, sick, radical adults exist out there and don't just die or otherwise fade out in their early to mid-twenties, and in its rawness, this was also hopeful. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Rape, Toxic relationship, Child abuse, and Incest

Moderate: Ableism, Chronic illness, Sexual harassment, and Xenophobia

Minor: Colonisation, Drug use, and Police brutality

gay's review

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Racism, Incest, Pedophilia, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Ableism