traa's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Dysphoria, Medical trauma, and Medical content
Moderate: Body shaming, Blood, Sexual content, and Vomit
Minor: Homophobia, Drug use, Lesbophobia, Outing, Pregnancy, and Transphobia
raereads23's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Medical trauma
Moderate: Homophobia and Dysphoria
Minor: Deadnaming
missrosymaplemoth's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Blood, Bullying, Sexual content, Transphobia, Deadnaming, Dysphoria, Homophobia, and Medical trauma
emilo's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Medical trauma
Minor: Sexism, Acephobia/Arophobia, Homophobia, and Transphobia
maverique's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Dysphoria and Blood
Moderate: Transphobia
Minor: Homophobia, Vomit, and Terminal illness
Misgendering was accidental. And all the times blood was brought up, it was menstrual blood.black_flamed_candle_b00ks's review against another edition
4.5
Minor: Transphobia, Homophobia, and Dysphoria
wrinnola's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Dysphoria, Transphobia, Medical trauma, Blood, and Medical content
Moderate: Acephobia/Arophobia and Sexism
Minor: Homophobia, Sexual content, and Vomit
stacy837's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Acephobia/Arophobia, Medical trauma, Deadnaming, and Dysphoria
Moderate: Body shaming, Homophobia, Bullying, and Sexual content
Minor: Vomit, Blood, and Misogyny
bookishmillennial's review against another edition
asdsdjhfslhflsdjhskfh I borrowed this from the library and after reading, I want my own copy! I adored this graphic novel/memoir from Maia Kobabe and I am so glad I read this.
Disclaimer: There are a few Harry Potter references in here, but this was published in May 2019 before JKR revealed herself as a TERF POS.
Topics covered:
- asexuality / aromantics
- gender dysphoria
- finding queer representation in books and music
- finding queer community through the Queer Straight Alliance in high school
- getting eir period and the trauma of navigating this along with pap smears
- figuring out what sexual orientation label felt right
- discussing queerness with eir family, friends and classmates
- experimenting with masturbation and tracking this to figure out eir feelings on the physical act of sex in general
- the spiral of constantly questioning and/or hating eir body
- binding, clothes/shopping, haircuts/styles, bodily hair
- and so much more!
Besides this being highly informative for anyone who is unfamiliar with gender queerness, asexuality, aromantic, nonbinary, othergender, etc, it's at its core a beautifully generous and vulnerable account from Maia's journey as ey question and figure out all of this. I'm so grateful to em for sharing this with us.
Graphic: Biphobia, Dysphoria, Homophobia, and Medical trauma
caitlinemccann's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Blood, Body horror, and Dysphoria
Moderate: Sexual content, Panic attacks/disorders, and Homophobia
Minor: Vomit and Excrement