Reviews tagging 'Transphobia'

Something That May Shock and Discredit You by Daniel M. Lavery

14 reviews

rosesus's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

this book sits at the very strange intersection between trans masculinity, and religious trauma. if you have both, i would highly recommend this book. it definitely touched my soul.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Transphobia

imrereads's review against another edition

funny reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Alcoholism

ronan_lesh's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deadnaming, Transphobia, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Alcoholism and Misogyny

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders and Racism

brassmonkey's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny inspiring mysterious reflective relaxing medium-paced

5.0

Less of an autobiography, more of a rambling conversation you'd have with a fellow transmasculine friend at 2 am about religion and identity.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Transphobia, and Religious bigotry

aardwyrm's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Graphic: Alcoholism and Transphobia

onalark's review against another edition

funny hopeful reflective medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Transphobia

junothan's review against another edition

funny hopeful reflective medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Transphobia, and Dysphoria

imds's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deadnaming, Transphobia, and Dysphoria

Minor: Alcoholism

rhi_books's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective slow-paced

3.75

Often fairly incoherent, but with frequent brilliance despite this. I oddly get the impression that the parts I found incoherent would be found brilliant by others and vice versa. When I could work my way through the layers the humour and understanding was wonderful. I shall be returning to this book again to try and winkle out more of it's gems.

I read the audiobook, and though Lavery has an excellent voice, I think the audiobook probably suffers from the lack of page architecture, containing multiple conversations in the format: 
A: says something 
B: says something else
Without character voices these quickly become tedious and hard to follow.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Transphobia, and Abandonment

Minor: Medical content

cultivatingshelves's review against another edition

funny hopeful lighthearted reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Religious bigotry

Minor: Transphobia