Reviews tagging 'Transphobia'
Non-Binary Lives: An Anthology of Intersecting Identities by Jos Twist, Kat Gupta, Meg-John Barker, Ben Vincent
3 reviews
lqvekanej's review
5.0
Graphic: Religious bigotry, Biphobia, Sexual content, Colonisation, Racism, Ableism, and Transphobia
queer_bookwyrm's review against another edition
4.0
Non-Binary Lives: An Anthology of Intersecting Identities edited by Jos Twist, Ben Vincent, Meg-John Barker, and Kat Gupta is a collection of essays from Nonbinary people of different backgrounds mostly in the UK. This was a great read. If you are nonbinary, pick this up, I promise you will feel seen. If you are not, pick this up and learn about it.
I don't even know what to write about this anthology. So much of it resonated with me, and I had so many things in common with a lot of these people in the way that we feel about ourselves and how the world perceives us. Many of the authors were able to put my abstract feelings into words. I loved how intersectional this was as well. So many people with many different intersections instead of the same kind of nonbinary people we tend to see in the media (white, thin, able bodies, wealthy, vaguely masculine or androgynous).
This anthology illustrates that there isn't one way to be nonbinary or "look nonbinary." So much care and love was put into this book. The editors acknowledge the privilege they have being able to write this book and take care not to make sweeping generalizations to let each person speak for themselves.
The book is broken up into four sections: Cultural Context; Communities; The Life Course; and Bodies, Health, and Wellbeing. Many of the things I read felt like a mirror was being held up, while others were more of a window into intersections I don't hold, and allowed me to examine the privileges I do hold. One theme all the chapters had in common was the sense of not belonging, of not being trans or nonbinary enough.
Graphic: Mental illness, Ableism, Fatphobia, and Forced institutionalization
Moderate: Transphobia, Chronic illness, Biphobia, and Homophobia
Minor: Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicide, Bullying, and Eating disorder
orlagal's review
4.5
Graphic: Abandonment, Ableism, Antisemitism, Biphobia, Body shaming, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Confinement, Deadnaming, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Grief, Hate crime, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Outing, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, Racism, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, and Violence