Reviews tagging 'Homophobia'

Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe

60 reviews

hr_nilsson's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Blood

Minor: Deadnaming, Homophobia, Misogyny, and Dysphoria

melongin's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

This book was an amazing read. The author's words and artistry come together in a beautiful way. I read this while struggling with my own gender identity, and even though I don't feel the exact same way the author does, it helped a ton to show me I'm not alone. That it's okay to be different, to feel "different". I am who I am. Gender is a beautiful thing to explore. There are limitless ways of expressing it. I am grateful to Maia Kobabe for writing/drawing this story and for fighting against the books bans by homophobic people. E is a fantastic person and I wish em all the best things in the world.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Transphobia, and Dysphoria

Moderate: Sexual harassment

alisonannk's review against another edition

emotional informative sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Sexism, Blood, Outing, and Dysphoria

Minor: Homophobia, Misogyny, Transphobia, and Lesbophobia

follypotter's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.75

This made me feel all of the feels. My only complaint is that it just ends so abruptly. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Transphobia, and Dysphoria

sabrinaleaf's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective fast-paced

4.5

4.5 ⭐️ 

Reading banned books likes its my mission on earth

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deadnaming, Homophobia, Sexual content, and Transphobia

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Sexism

melist6's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Transphobia, and Dysphoria

Minor: Body horror

zydecovivo's review

emotional inspiring tense fast-paced

4.5

I've seen this book in multiple places advertised as the most banned (or one of the most banned books) since it was published. I decided I wanted to see what it was about. 

 

To start, I did not realize this was a graphic novel. That made it much easier to read and also somewhat understandable as to why some adults felt the need to ban it. Graphic novels are often confused for children's books and this is not for children. There is nudity as well as explicit mentions of sex and periods. However, this would be very helpful for teenagers and young adults also struggling with their gender identity. I think Maia does a great job of explaining how their gender has felt like a balancing act and even illustrating the more complex feelings about it, as well as the additional confusion around sexuality that comes with a fluid gender. I found the ending a bit abrupt, but I understand that, like any identity, it is forever evolving, so that is not really the end. This is simply a chronicle that Maia has published to help others understand what growing up gender queer is like and to create explicit gender queer representation in literature. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content and Dysphoria

Moderate: Deadnaming, Sexual content, and Medical trauma

Minor: Homophobia, Transphobia, and Blood

rosie_valadez's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Sexual content, Transphobia, Medical trauma, and Dysphoria

Minor: Blood

chickaboogawah's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

I really loved this book and hope to share it with many people. Maia clearly explains eir thoughts and choices growing up, and I hope my kids are inspired by em.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Biphobia, Body shaming, Homophobia, Misogyny, Sexual content, Transphobia, Vomit, Medical content, Medical trauma, Lesbophobia, Outing, and Dysphoria

xabbeylongx's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

2.0

Spoilers Ahead: 
I thought this was a very interesting book. As someone who is part of the LGBTQ+ community, I wanted to read about what it felt like to not be the gender you was assigned at birth. 

This is an autographical piece, and it was so intriguing. We follow Maia as ey (I think these are the right pronouns, I’m so sorry if they’re not correct) are learning to find themselves. Assigned female at birth, but feeling like ey’re genderless and not really wanting to be identified as male or female, it’s really cool to see em become more happy with eir body, and find out which pronouns work out best for em. 

Honestly, I learnt quite a lot more than I thought I would from this comic. Such as how their is actually a hormonal reason as to why some people feel like they are not connected with the body they were born in. Secondly, I thought this comic was so raw, so brave and so beautiful, and showing the struggles that ey faced. Even with family, who are supposed to love you unconditionally, aren’t perfect, and it’s nice to see it from all angles. 

I’m definitely very interested in learning a lot more about being non-binary and gender-queer, as I think it’s becoming a more prevalent part of life, and I want to make sure I’m being respectful of everyone’s gender. Also, it’s insanely fucking cool. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Homophobia, Sexual content, Transphobia, and Blood