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bexi's review against another edition
Graphic: Colonisation, Bullying, Racism, and Racial slurs
Moderate: Violence, Child abuse, Police brutality, Death of parent, Suicide, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Mental illness, Domestic abuse, and Grief
Minor: Animal cruelty, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Genocide, Emotional abuse, Self harm, Chronic illness, Cursing, Body shaming, Child death, Abandonment, Pregnancy, Blood, Homophobia, Suicide attempt, Animal death, and Infidelity
balfies's review
4.5
Some poetic, some hilarious, many haunting or reckoning with pain and discrimination. Emotional, evocative, and expressive writing throughout.
Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, Rape, Medical trauma, War, Violence, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Slavery, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Pedophilia, Religious bigotry, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Murder, Misogyny, Mental illness, Hate crime, Grief, Genocide, Forced institutionalization, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Drug abuse, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, Death, Colonisation, Classism, Child abuse, Bullying, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Addiction, Ableism, and Abandonment
dianahincureads's review
4.0
The GROWING UP series contains 5 titles: Growing Up Disabled in Australia, Growing Up Queer in Australia, Growing Up African in Australia, Growing Up Asian in Australia, Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia. A fresh new anthology is on its way: Growing Up in Australia is released in November this year and contains pieces from all the aforementioned anthologies.
Moderate: Bullying, Racial slurs, and Racism
Minor: Addiction
emzilia's review
5.0
A few notable chapters for me:
- Easter 1969, Katie Bryan. Wish this one was longer
- Growing up, Grow up, grown-ups, Ambelin Kwaymullina
- ‘Abo Nose’, Zachary Penrith-Puchalski
- Carol Petterson’s chapter: I had no idea Australia enforced a type of caste system within missionaries based on the skin colour of people, people in the same family - Carol was not allowed to talk to her own brother or Mother because she was light skinned and he was not to avoid ‘contamination’
I really loved this anthology collection. It’s so important to hear the experiences of different Aboriginal people from different walks of life that are largely just synthesised together as a single experience in mainstream dialogue/media, or are otherwise underrepresented at all.
My first time listening to an audiobook, and while I think it complemented the nature of a short story collection with a range of voices, I did find it harder to retain the stories. If I get a chance I’d like to read this again, properly, and take my time with it a bit more so the essays don’t blend together as much.
Graphic: Racial slurs and Racism
Moderate: Self harm
Minor: Alcoholism, Bullying, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Hate crime, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, and Rape
moosegurl's review
4.0
People ask me sometimes if I experienced any racism when I was a kid. Questions like that always make me wonder where the other person is living. They seem to be speaking to me from some kind of magical Australia, where it's possible for an indigenous person to escape the effects of racism in a colonized land. But that's not the Australia I know. It would be surprising if it was, given that the entitlement of the colonizers to the soil was founded on the alleged superiority of western Europe ways of life, over those of indigenous peoples."
Graphic: Suicide
Moderate: Racism, Racial slurs, Suicidal thoughts, Xenophobia, Alcoholism, Bullying, Emotional abuse, and Hate crime
beautifulpaxielreads's review
Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Death, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Mental illness, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, and Slavery
Talks a lot about the impact that colonialism has had on Aboriginal Australians.