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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
mel_s_bookshelf's review
5.0
Each voice is unique, as are their stories and experiences. It has left me feel raw, emotional, disgusted and ashamed and just as equally inspired, hopeful, uplifted and determined to make it a higher priority to read more from Indigenous authors.
Graphic: Colonisation, Classism, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Grief, and Mental illness
Moderate: Alcoholism, Death, Abandonment, and Addiction
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
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.