Reviews tagging 'Homophobia'

The Third Person by Emma Grove

4 reviews

whitne_ey's review

emotional funny informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Child abuse, Deadnaming, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Medical trauma, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, and Dysphoria

frozenduck's review

challenging emotional reflective fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Grief, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and Dysphoria

kitheminges's review

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

This book made me feel seen. Like someone knew what I had been through. Both as a person with DID and a trans person. I finally felt like someone understood. I still haven’t stopped crying

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Deadnaming, Homophobia, Mental illness, Physical abuse, and Transphobia

Moderate: Alcoholism, Deadnaming, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Abandonment

polychromatic_hedgehog_parable's review

challenging funny sad tense fast-paced

really good! incredible art! the page count caught be by surprise but I read it in one day, like Maia Kobabe claimed on the back of the book lol ^^;

language used by therapist and eventually by main character: alter, core self

I was really sad that the main character ended up capitulating a bit to the therapist's wrong idea of her! he was on this fucking quest to find the "core self" and make sure that person would be ok with transitioning/figuring out whether that person was "truly a woman" absolute bullshit. I just had this palpable sense that everyone in their system was working well together and trying to work towards self-improvement, and the therapist was blocking them at every turn lmao. TTuTT

actually now that I think about it, I'd be curious to know whether everyone has the same reaction to reading this book (i.e. this therapist is emotionally abusive _and_ is employing harmful and outdated ideas about DID). ...The idea of someone empathizing with the therapist is deeply concerning to me lmao. pls read this maybe https://www.them.us/story/emma-grove-third-person-graphic-memoir-q-and-a

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, and Transphobia

Moderate: Bullying, Child abuse, Homophobia, and Violence

Minor: Outing

medical malpractice / abuse by therapist