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dominic_t's review against another edition
4.5
Krys has some beautiful insights into how his pregnancy and birth shaped his self-image, and he writes about his experiences so beautifully.
Graphic: Eating disorder, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Deadnaming and Transphobia
Minor: Miscarriage
nagev's review against another edition
2.75
Graphic: Transphobia, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Dysphoria
Minor: Deadnaming
shewantsthediction's review against another edition
3.0
The perspective of being a trans nonbinary parent and the story of how they had to adopt their own children was super enlightening, though.
Graphic: Child abuse, Deadnaming, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Mental illness, Pregnancy, and Dysphoria
Moderate: Miscarriage, Medical content, and Medical trauma
Minor: Alcohol
rieviolet's review
3.5
There were times I struggled a bit with the prose, it felt a bit fragmented, jumpy and fast, with very short sentences or with sentences lacking punctuation. I don't think that I personally get on well with this kind of writing style, sometimes I struggled to follow the structure of the sentence.
At times, I also felt that the story telling was a bit disjointed and there were many segments expanding on related topics that, nevertheless, I found a bit boring and that took me out of the main narration. For example, there were digressions on the ultrasound technology, on other scientific or medical topics that I did not expected and just did not care much for.
I'm still glad to have read the book as I'm always keen to read more about queerness in all its forms. I just struggled a bit to get thorugh the book and did not get out of it as much as I was expecting.
Graphic: Transphobia, Medical content, and Pregnancy
Moderate: Deadnaming, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Mental illness, Violence, Death of parent, and Dysphoria
Minor: Body shaming, Cancer, Miscarriage, Sexual content, and Sexual violence