Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

Uncomfortable Labels: My Life as a Gay Autistic Trans Woman by Laura Kate Dale

10 reviews

lumaslegume's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

This book is amazing! 

I think it's massively important to acknowledge the intersectionality of queer identities and autism. It's a demographic not widely spoken about, or heavily misunderstood and even demonised. I felt that Laura hit all the right notes when speaking on how transgender people with autism are treated in society. Even though this book is now a few years old, it's very applicable to current issues still, which only shows we still have issues to tackle.

As a autistic transgender man I found this book highly relatable, it also gave me lots of hope despite some of the negative themes in it.

It's a very accessible read, with easy to understand language and easy font. 


This isn't the first book I've read by Laura Dale Kate, having first read Gender Euphoria, which meant when I saw this book on the library bookshelf I knew I was in for a great read. She is a fantastic writer and if I ever find another one of her books I'd happily pick it up in a heartbeat.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Transphobia, Suicide attempt, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship and Homophobia

zipples's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective relaxing medium-paced

5.0

i think it made me more hopeful for my adult life as an autistic person who is queer and just turned 18. I can have rich social life, and I can not overcome the difficulties with autism but work with them. It was nice to see another autistic queer person have a rich social life, and be queer and happy. They have a fiance and hobbies. I want to be like that

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime and Transphobia

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Deadnaming

fizzymilk22's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

Such an interesting book to me. Gender dysphoria and autism have a lot of overlap in my own life at the moment, and having the perspective of someone who's had to deal with both and is at a more confident stage in their life is incredibly valuable. It is definitely pitched to be accessible to those unfamiliar with LGBT culture and autism, which while absolutely the right move makes certain sections less interesting as they go over things I'm already familiar with. But as I expected this is simultaneously joyous and tragic and in the end hopeful to the point of inspiration to me. I wish there were more perspectives like this out there.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia and Dysphoria

Moderate: Addiction, Body shaming, Bullying, Deadnaming, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Outing, and Sexual harassment

gothicpluto's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use, Sexual assault, and Suicidal thoughts

sweetpeasneverendingbooklist's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Sexual assault, Transphobia, and Suicide attempt

kstericker's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Hate crime, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Transphobia, Suicide attempt, and Dysphoria

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Drug use, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Grief, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Body shaming, Deadnaming, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, and Pedophilia

benediction's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Toxic friendship, and Dysphoria

Moderate: Bullying, Deadnaming, Drug use, Homophobia, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Grief, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Addiction, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, and Suicide attempt

buttermellow's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Bullying, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, and Dysphoria

Moderate: Body shaming, Hate crime, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Sexual assault, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Addiction and Misogyny

jc_wb's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

 Laura's story of coming to terms with being transgender and being diagnosed with autism at 18, detailing the missed signs from her childhood and then her experiences being a gay autistic trans woman. 

Not rating this as it's a memoir. 

Really good. Difficult to read at times due to the subject but I'm really glad I read it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia and Transphobia

Moderate: Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Sexual assault

jennabajuice's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Transphobia, Suicide attempt, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Homophobia