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Drawing Power: Women's Stories of Sexual Violence, Harassment, and Survival by Diane Noomin, Roxane Gay
3 reviews
stevia333k's review
Basically this is a "speak bitterness" type testimony, so it's not going to be entirely anti-oppression. So for instance there was a part about arab men that felt awkward for me to read a white settler USAmerican woman because USA's government literally pinkwashed the colonization of brown women by white men as feminism. The other part is that there were contributers who had various spellings of women in their bios that implied "difference feminism", which is strong on gender policing.
Lastly, i get that trauma is stored in the body, but the amount of naked traumatized people in this book suggests to me an internalized victim-blaming, thinking that (C)SA happens because of the victims' bodies instead of the assaulter being an assaulter. Like more innocently, there are a lot of cis women who get assaulted because their assaulters make a lot of bullshit apologia about blue balls, and then the victims repeat those health myths. But it's like, I just hope that now that power has been drawn that we can recover from that internalized victim-blaming, internalized gender policing, internalized belief that the sexes are different.
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Hate crime, Alcohol, Incest, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Rape, Blood, Body horror, Body shaming, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Bullying, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Islamophobia, Lesbophobia, Stalking, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, Transphobia, Violence, and Suicidal thoughts
nellsir's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Incest, Drug abuse, Child abuse, Sexual harassment, Religious bigotry, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Pedophilia, Dysphoria, Homophobia, Hate crime, Sexism, Rape, Sexual violence, Lesbophobia, Sexual content, Violence, Transphobia, Toxic relationship, Misogyny, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Domestic abuse, and Adult/minor relationship
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Transphobia, Toxic relationship, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Pedophilia, Drug use, Drug abuse, Gaslighting, Suicide attempt, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Misogyny, Mental illness, Dysphoria, Sexual content, Physical abuse, Rape, Alcohol, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Violence, Sexism, and Religious bigotry
therainbowshelf's review
5.0
Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Sexism, Rape, Transphobia, Homophobia, Misogyny, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Self harm, and Suicidal thoughts