Reviews tagging 'Racism'

Pageboy: A Memoir by Elliot Page

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robinks's review against another edition

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emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.25

I was excited to see that Page read his own audiobook - memoirs always seem to have a greater impact on me when done this way. However, the chapters felt so disorganized to me, both in chronology and topic. While I appreciate Page’s acknowledgement of his privileged identities, I want to read more memoirs by trans folks of color.

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challenging emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

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acechemicals's review against another edition

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challenging emotional inspiring reflective tense slow-paced

4.0


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the_true_monroe's review against another edition

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dark emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.0


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stevia333k's review against another edition

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dark tense slow-paced

4.25

The last 3rd was good, and i say this because the first 2 thirds were violent as hell. I had to learn that he was in a lot of action movies basically in order to handle it & i also could only listen 10 minutes at a time at triple speed. 

Anyways, after a while certain parts about being trans were like oh good my transfemme self isn't alone. 

The relationships though & the shadow work kinda went over my head because I'm aromantic but the workplace accident (because of how wreckless the directors were to black & queer lives) helped connect me to the kind of stuff he meant, so I am thankful he included workplace incidents like that.

Also the memoir isn't told as chronologically, so basically if you're taking notes then I recommend trying to make a character list sort of glossary since the time dimension doesn't sort them, but some segments are like public letters.

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rionstorm's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

3.75

I love reading about other transmascs :) This is definitely self indulgent, but then it is a memoir so no better place i guess. 
In between the long list of his ex-partners there's some really honest and vulnerable stuff about being trans that i resonated with a lot, and that I'm glad that other people, cis and trans, will get to read. I also really liked how he explained why he was using his previous name at times, and clearly laid out that he wasn't comfortable with others doing that. 

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murve's review against another edition

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emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

3.75


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beatingaroundthebooks's review against another edition

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dark emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

4.5


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challenging emotional fast-paced

3.5


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