Reviews tagging 'Body shaming'

Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe

34 reviews

jillaay_h's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, and Dysphoria

yleavy's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.75

A really lovely memoir and reflection on gender identity and sexuality. I loved the family relationships.

The ending felt like it needed another beat or two; I actually thought I was missing a few pages.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Dysphoria

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Misogyny, Sexual content, Vomit, and Medical content

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

torturedreadersdept's review

emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Body horror, Body shaming, Sexual content, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, 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

creatingavery's review

hopeful informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Body shaming, Deadnaming, Misogyny, Transphobia, Blood, Pregnancy, and Dysphoria

antijeffbozo_love2read's review

emotional funny reflective relaxing fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Blood, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Deadnaming, Drug use, Gore, Misogyny, Transphobia, Excrement, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Cancer, Chronic illness, Vomit, and Pregnancy

Injury/gore is metaphorical and features a character impaled on a spike in a couple of different instances. It metaphorically represents emotional/physical pain and features some amount of blood, nothing else. Blood warning mainly applies to menstrual blood.

natraf_reads's review

emotional informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

Kobabe writes a beautiful reflection of eir experiences growing up and dealing with the struggles of self identity. E shares eir experiences of body image, sexuality, and relationships with others in becoming more authentically em. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Homophobia, Transphobia, and Dysphoria

theskyboi's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Body shaming, Bullying, Homophobia, Sexual content, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Acephobia/Arophobia, Lesbophobia, Toxic friendship, and Dysphoria

brea's review

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deadnaming

Moderate: Body shaming and Homophobia