Reviews tagging 'Hate crime'

Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality by Julia Shaw

13 reviews

maggieparedesauthor's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Bullying, Cursing, Deadnaming, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Murder, Lesbophobia, Outing, Toxic friendship, Sexual harassment, and War

fivefeather's review

informative inspiring medium-paced

4.0

A bit meandering; I sometimes wondered why Shaw spent so long on a specific topic. Though it's mentioned in the tagline, bisexual *culture* is a minor aspect of the book compared to history, science, and the struggles faced by bisexual people in queer and straight culture.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Biphobia, Hate crime, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

Talks extensively about biphobic harrassment and hate crimes, but there are no detailed descriptions of specific events.

alexstartsthings's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Biphobia, Hate crime, Homophobia, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Transphobia, Violence, Religious bigotry, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Rape

lunxchloe's review against another edition

informative fast-paced

5.0

Probably my quickest non-fiction read ever. Shaw covers bi history and culture, talks about how science tried and tries to assess sexuality somewhat objectively and sprinkles in her own experiences as a bisexual woman.
I found this to be a very affirming read, considering how often I personally stumbled upon bi erasure. This book is one I'll probably never stop recommending to friends, no matter their sexuality, gender or relationship status.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Hate crime, Homophobia, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Religious bigotry, and Lesbophobia

Moderate: Bullying

ienbdri's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Bullying, Hate crime, Homophobia, Racism, Sexism, Sexual violence, Transphobia, Religious bigotry, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, Self harm, Suicide, Violence, Medical trauma, Murder, Pregnancy, and Outing

billiema3's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Hate crime, Sexual assault, and Xenophobia

ruthhelizabeth's review

challenging dark hopeful informative medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia

Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Outing, Sexual harassment, and Colonisation

aly97's review

informative relaxing medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Hate crime

bashsbooks's review against another edition

hopeful informative slow-paced

3.75

This book is informative... to a newly bisexual person entering the community or a particularly good ally. But the advertising made me hopeful that it would be more for someone like me (someone who has been out and entrenched in the bisexual community for a long time). And while I did not feel unwelcome to this book, much of its contents were explaining things I already knew. Therefore, I recommend it as a touchstone and basic primer for bi studies.

*Also, this book treats all multisexual identities as falling 'under the bi umbrella', so if you are pan, poly, omni, etc. this book was written with you in mind, but you may not enjoy the bi-prioritization in the language.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia

Minor: Ableism, Bullying, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual violence, Transphobia, Violence, Religious bigotry, and Lesbophobia

All of the content warnings are discussed in an academic sense; they are not described directly in detail as if someone is experiencing them, but rather, the author goes into depth about the vulerabilities of the bisexual (and queer) community.

violetaudrey's review

informative inspiring fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Biphobia, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Forced institutionalization, Lesbophobia, Sexual harassment, and Colonisation