Reviews tagging 'Rape'

Girls Can Kiss Now: Essays by Jill Gutowitz

84 reviews

akswhy's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted fast-paced

5.0

I am floored by how much I loved these essays. The heart and comedy and devastation of the queer experience exists in perfect balance. I want to print out the lesbian canon list and tape it to my bedroom walls like a psycho. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Homophobia, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Emotional abuse

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

slitheenfan's review against another edition

reflective slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Toxic relationship

Essay, reliability, love, coming-of-age,

mairallen1114's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Rape, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Homophobia

Minor: Lesbophobia

hadsbaker's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Rape

Minor: Mental illness

carmentxx's review against another edition

challenging hopeful reflective fast-paced

2.0

i have to say, it was quite disappointing. i didn't really like it. it's one thing to be ground breaking in your existence as lesbian non fiction, but quite a different thing to actually say anything ground breaking, and unfortunately, this book just doesn't have it. the writing style is quite strange- it's a millennial trying to appeal to a gen z audience, and it doesn't work. it just ends up being quite cringey and bizarre. i was quite looking forward to reading this book as perhaps an eye opener into lesbian culture, and while i did learn some things, it was really quite a slog to get through.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual violence, and Body shaming

there is a whole description of multiple rapes which come out of nowhere

brinotbrie's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Sexual assault

aimeelouhalliday's review against another edition

funny reflective medium-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Self harm, and Sexual assault

bruhmantics's review against another edition

funny lighthearted reflective medium-paced

2.75

This book was cute and funny and gay and relatable but ultimately I didn’t get that much out of it.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape and Homophobia

montyalmoro's review against another edition

funny lighthearted reflective fast-paced

1.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Rape, and Sexual content

kaatelin's review against another edition

2.75

Spoiler

extremely millennial. The chapter on the author’s realization that her love for women was not just based out of her experiences with abusive men, but that those experiences still had weight, was amazing. The rest of the book didn’t match up to what I expected and just didn’t keep me hooked.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Rape