Reviews tagging 'Bullying'

Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe

25 reviews

monstrouscosmos's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring fast-paced

4.25

big note off the top: I appreciate the writing style of this memoir, and that the audiobook was narrated by the author! it's always a treat when an author reads their own work.

I struggled with some of the terminology (specifically around

kink

) and concepts (specifically around topics like fanfiction). mostly due to it being substantially more graphic than I was anticipating, especially when it came to

sexual exploration as a youth and adult

and descriptions of

medical experiences

. all in all I think I would have benefitted from content warnings, or otherwise some more heads up in chapter names.

all that said I found myself often resonating the experiences explored, and appreciated learning more about the ones I didn't have first hand knowledge of!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Transphobia, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Dysphoria

Moderate: Biphobia, Bullying, Misogyny, Sexism, Acephobia/Arophobia, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Cancer and Toxic relationship

awalsh1212001's review

challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Dysphoria

Moderate: Alcoholism, Deadnaming, Misogyny, Transphobia, and Alcohol

Minor: Body shaming and Bullying

yleavy's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.75

A really lovely memoir and reflection on gender identity and sexuality. I loved the family relationships.

The ending felt like it needed another beat or two; I actually thought I was missing a few pages.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Dysphoria

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Misogyny, Sexual content, Vomit, and Medical content

penofpossibilities's review

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

3.0

It ended rather abrupltly, that was jarring. It felt very immersive otherwise. It was a very honest account of eir experiences. Some of the scenes were very disturbing in it's graphic depiction of undergoing a trauma on the body. That was difficult to read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Bullying, Sexism, Sexual content, and Transphobia

Minor: Vomit

theskyboi's review

emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Body shaming, Bullying, Homophobia, Sexual content, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Acephobia/Arophobia, Lesbophobia, Toxic friendship, and Dysphoria

annaofjesup's review against another edition

reflective medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cancer, Chronic illness, Transphobia, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

maggieparedesauthor's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

This book was such a good reflection on figuring yourself out.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Homophobia, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, and Outing

rockythefreak's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective tense slow-paced

5.0

I fell in love with the work. It made me feel like I got a deeper understanding of things my partner talks about, being nonbinary and asexual, using words that I feel like she struggles to find at times. It helped me find some words for my own feelings and experiences too. I am so grateful to this work and it's author.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Sexism, Sexual content, Transphobia, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Medical trauma, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Bullying and Acephobia/Arophobia

Minor: Incest

Very brief child nudity (not sexualized). Children are depicted urinating outside. Brief but graphic images of urine and vomit and feces. As for incest, it is discussed vaguely. It is only noticable if you're familiar with the pop culture reference where the incest takes place. Details:

The incest concerns a fictional "ship" between Sam and Dean Winchester from the show Supernatural.

Pap smears are discussed

as traumatic and extremely painful, and the pain is both physical and emotional, so it's amplified.

Blood, Injury, and body horror is used at times for metaphorical effect.

charliemaigne's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Deadnaming, Medical trauma, Acephobia/Arophobia, and Dysphoria

Moderate: Biphobia, Bullying, Homophobia, Misogyny, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Lesbophobia, Outing, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Hate crime

dannothedino's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Mental illness, Sexual content, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Dysphoria

Moderate: Bullying, Panic attacks/disorders, Transphobia, and Blood

Minor: Acephobia/Arophobia