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The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood by Krys Malcolm Belc
5 reviews
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: Dysphoria, Eating disorder, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Transphobia and Deadnaming
Minor: Miscarriage
e_flah's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Pregnancy
Moderate: Transphobia, Eating disorder, and Homophobia
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: Deadnaming, Eating disorder, Child abuse, Dysphoria, Homophobia, Mental illness, and Pregnancy
Moderate: Medical content, Medical trauma, and Miscarriage
Minor: Alcohol
simonamiller's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Pregnancy
Moderate: Eating disorder
rieviolet's review against another edition
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, Pregnancy, and Medical content
Moderate: Violence, Deadnaming, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Homophobia, and Mental illness
Minor: Sexual content, Sexual violence, Miscarriage, Cancer, and Body shaming