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The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood by Krys Malcolm Belc
7 reviews
wy_woman's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.75
Content Warnings
Moderate: Eating disorder, Homophobia, Transphobia, Grief, and Pregnancy
apollos_books's review against another edition
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
soooo good. this memoir is incredibly intimate, raw, and honest. it's about trans parenthood, but also about so much more - family, love, gender, sexuality, biological processes, bureaucracy. i could go on. the "chapters" are really short so the pages fly by. and i loved how the author combined photos with the text as well. really well done.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Homophobia and Transphobia
Moderate: Physical abuse
Minor: Miscarriage
wenwanzhao's review against another edition
emotional
reflective
tense
medium-paced
3.25
Insightful, if difficult to read at times. Many interesting thoughts about pregnancy, parenthood, and gender.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Homophobia, Transphobia, and Pregnancy
Minor: Miscarriage
e_flah's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
informative
fast-paced
5.0
The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood was a well-written and thoughtful look at parenthood, gender, and families. This is one of those books where it's hard to explain just how much it meant to me. Belc's story was a lovely reminder that our self identities can change and there's no "right" timeline to figure these things out. It was also just really great to see another way that queer love and queer families can look. Belc's writing left me feeling like there were more options for what my future could look like than I'd even thought to imagine; this was a true gift in these times.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Pregnancy
Moderate: Eating disorder, Homophobia, and Transphobia
shewantsthediction's review against another edition
challenging
hopeful
informative
reflective
medium-paced
3.0
Parts of this made me a little uncomfortable, particularly when the author talks about almost hitting their kids . I respect the honesty, but as a survivor of child abuse, it was super off-putting. The other thing that bothered me were the pregnancy descriptions, but that's more of a personal squeamishness.
The perspective of being a trans nonbinary parent and the story of how they had to adopt their own children was super enlightening, though.
The perspective of being a trans nonbinary parent and the story of how they had to adopt their own children was super enlightening, though.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child abuse, Deadnaming, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Mental illness, Pregnancy, and Dysphoria
Moderate: Miscarriage, Medical content, and Medical trauma
Minor: Alcohol
rieviolet's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
3.5
I think I went into this book with a lot of pre-made assumptions and expectations that weren't really met. But I recognize that this is all on me the reader as I expected to find reflected a lot of my own feelings and experiences about being non-binary and the concept of motherhood/parenthood and so I cannot really put any blame on the book itself. Still, the reading experience, for me at least, fell a bit flat, aside from some really interesting, reflective and emotional passages, but they were few and far between.
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.
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.
Content Warnings
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
imrereads's review against another edition
emotional
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
[This book was gifted to me by Counter Point Press]
This is quite the emotional story. It follows Belc, a trans masculine nonbinary person, who carries one of his own children. Belc takes us through his life, relationships, pregnancy and journey as a parents in a very vulnurable way. It's told in a very fragmented way, and we move around in time a lot. Often he writes directly to "you", but who "you" is seems to change. This took me a while to get used to, but I also found it to be so effective.
I'm grateful to Belc for sharing his story so openly. It's rare to see stories of trans people going through pregnancy. I loved seeing how he found himself through this journey and in parenthood. Absolutely wonderful.
This is quite the emotional story. It follows Belc, a trans masculine nonbinary person, who carries one of his own children. Belc takes us through his life, relationships, pregnancy and journey as a parents in a very vulnurable way. It's told in a very fragmented way, and we move around in time a lot. Often he writes directly to "you", but who "you" is seems to change. This took me a while to get used to, but I also found it to be so effective.
I'm grateful to Belc for sharing his story so openly. It's rare to see stories of trans people going through pregnancy. I loved seeing how he found himself through this journey and in parenthood. Absolutely wonderful.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body shaming, Deadnaming, Homophobia, Miscarriage, Transphobia, and Pregnancy
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