Reviews tagging 'Medical trauma'

Pageboy: A Memoir by Elliot Page

6 reviews

thriftstoreclown's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Murder, Alcohol, Eating disorder, Lesbophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Transphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Hate crime, Rape, Self harm, Stalking, and Torture

Moderate: Religious bigotry, Outing, Panic attacks/disorders, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Medical trauma, Pandemic/Epidemic, Deadnaming, Pregnancy, Vomit, and Excrement

Some of these subjects are kind of par for the course when contextualized with what we know about Elliot publicly already (as a public figure who came out as a lesbian in 2014 before eventually coming out as trans) such as lesbophobia, transphobia, religious bigotry, mentions of (potential) hate crimes. But Elliot’s story is also full of history not only around the Canadian landscape of his youth, but also of characters that he has played, and he does not shy away from sharing all of the gory details of

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a local explosion that devastated Nova Scotia, or even the way that one of his film characters was murdered.

, which are mentioned in great detail. There are also several instances mentioned in detail where Elliot describes being

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sexually assaulted

, and he also describes other instances of verbal abuse, often closely linked.

lovegriefandgender's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Dysphoria, Medical trauma, Hate crime, Rape, and Eating disorder

cghegan's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad slow-paced

3.25

In this incredibly thoughtful and well-written memoir, Elliot Page deliberately meditates and threads together a narrative of pain and the most intense self-discovery. It was a good memoir, a beautifully crafted book, but extremely difficult to read. Page has rendered his agony and self-loathing so well that it’s difficult to sit with and parse with him as he cycles through nonchronological threads, looping over and over through small moments in time to piece together meaning. It is well crafted, a quilt in twenty nine shades of blues, but it is wave after wave of agony and sadness, and moments that linger on joy or relief or self discovery have less focus and the same breath of life that Page can write into his moments of darkness and loss. All this to say: I’m beyond grateful this narrative exists. It is going to save someone’s life. But I advise exercising care when reading.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Sexual assault, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Self harm, Physical abuse, Body shaming, Outing, Stalking, Blood, Sexual content, Panic attacks/disorders, Emotional abuse, and Transphobia

Minor: Bullying

eleasereads's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Blood, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Dysphoria, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Outing, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Suicide, Body shaming, Child abuse, Deadnaming, Eating disorder, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Transphobia, Medical content, Self harm, Stalking, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

honeybeewitched87's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Homophobia, Medical content, Body shaming, Dysphoria, Biphobia, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, and Transphobia

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Toxic friendship, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic, Grief, Self harm, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Physical abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Car accident, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Body shaming, Alcohol, Blood, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Cursing, Deadnaming, and Gaslighting

lily_eames's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective relaxing medium-paced

5.0

In Page’s electric memoir, he jumps between timelines in an almost poetic retelling of his rise to fame and trans journey. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Eating disorder, and Transphobia