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emoryscott's review against another edition
3.75
Graphic: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Biphobia, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Grief, Abortion, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Toxic friendship, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, and Deportation
abbyluvsfrogs444's review against another edition
4.5
Moderate: Body shaming, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Dysphoria, and Classism
skyfluff8's review against another edition
4.0
Moderate: Body shaming, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Pregnancy, and War
montyalmoro's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Sexual harassment
pricekillick's review against another edition
3.0
‘what we lived through
is living in us’
Graphic: Mental illness, Sexism, and Sexual harassment
intonewrealms's review against another edition
1.5
The book is split into four sections: Mind; Heart; Rest; Awake. I would say that Mind is far and away the best as it contains the most amount of poems which I feel actually manage to explore Kaur’s trauma or ruminate on her experiences whereas I feel a lot of this stuff is pretty classic ‘Instagram poetry’. A lot of it is also just very nothingy for example whilst I wholeheartedly agree with the statement ‘I am not interested in a feminism/ that excludes trans women’ to me that is not poetry, it is just a statement. In the longer poems my biggest issues is the punctuation: full stops in the middle of a sentence; line breaks without a purpose. If you are going to play with punctuation for a reason I understand that but this just felt like she was trying to be ✨different✨ because if you read this poetry aloud the way that she has written it down it sounds ridiculous! I also don’t understand why sometimes she does this thing of putting a hyphen and then the last line of the poem as if it’s the title. One thing I will say I liked was her ocasional word play, such as Sikh and sick, and the alliterative sound of the phrase ‘soles swollen’ for example, but I wish she had done things like this an awful lot more.
Graphic: Child abuse and Rape
Moderate: Racism and Sexism
citrusgrove's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Child abuse, Racism, Rape, and Sexual assault
Moderate: Sexism, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship
Minor: Domestic abuse
ospreyadventure's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Classism
youshouldntbeseeingthis03's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and War
_ellie_reading_'s review against another edition
5.0
Minor: Child abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence