Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth by Warsan Shire

10 reviews

veereads11's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Murder, Rape, Sexual content, Xenophobia, War, Violence, Abandonment, Death, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Fire/Fire injury, Incest, Sexism, and Sexual assault

doomluz's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

Powerful.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and War

Moderate: Rape

clemrain's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-paced

1.5

This poetry collection reads like an edgy, unfiltered notes app. It’s more lyrical than poetic. I think many of the poems needed more revision, and a more cohesive story needed to draw them all together.

The themes and lines are full of shock factor. What isn’t shock factor, is cliche and surface level connections to religion. Using the two most simple prayers and phrases of Islam is not adding more to the conversation. I think it needs more complexity to be a strong voice on the topic.

The poem structures are simple. i was hoping to see more command of language and style.

I wanted to like it more, but I had no strong positive feelings toward it. No connection, and it’s not because I’m not familiar with what’s being written.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Sexual violence

Moderate: War

claireallisonwrites's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Rape, Deportation, and Sexual content

ridaaamina's review against another edition

dark emotional sad fast-paced

5.0

I've never read anything by Warsan Shire that hasn't made me stop for a minute to catch my breath. teaching my mother how to give birth is a devastating collection of poems about surviving and remembering sexual assault, the things about womanhood we don't talk about often enough, unfaithful men, colonisation, losing your home country and being unwelcome through no fault of your own. It is beautiful, honest and heart-wrenching from beginning to end.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence and Sexual assault

Moderate: Sexual content and Physical abuse

Minor: Eating disorder and Alcoholism

alisonfaith426's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, Eating disorder, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual assault, and War

Moderate: Grief, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Medical trauma, and Torture

Minor: Death, Terminal illness, Cancer, Alcohol, and Blood

arianaybarra's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Rape, Toxic relationship, Sexual violence, and Sexual content

Minor: Xenophobia, Pedophilia, Medical trauma, and War

bithikahalder's review against another edition

fast-paced

2.5

Some of the initial poetry left a bad taste for me for its sexual content, which also kind of overpowered as the general vibe of the book, however I do have 3 favorites from the collection: When we last saw your father, Trying to swim with God, Questions for Miriam. The later half of the collection is more insightful, which I preferred.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Sexual content

poojakunaparaju's review

dark reflective fast-paced

3.0

so much going on i don't think i can even put into words but i'm not sure waiting for it to process will help either; mysterious and heartbreakingly beautiful.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Xenophobia, Rape, and Islamophobia

herk's review

dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Xenophobia

Moderate: Sexual assault and Sexual violence