Reviews tagging 'Homophobia'

Fine: A Comic About Gender by Rhea Ewing

25 reviews

spooderman's review

emotional reflective medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Biphobia, Body shaming, Bullying, Deadnaming, Homophobia, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Dysphoria

Moderate: Cursing, Drug abuse, Hate crime, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Sexual harassment, and Classism

Minor: Child abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, Colonisation, and Deportation

carey's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

This was a very thought provoking discussion of gender. I thought the comic was an interesting concept of delivering what the author learning during their interviews. I had hoped I'd learn a bit more. But when you consider the ever changing vocabulary with gender, it's not a bad thing that this graphic novel would leave me with more questions.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia and Transphobia

Moderate: Death and Suicide attempt

aus10england's review against another edition

hopeful informative medium-paced

3.75

Pretty cool graphic novel that remains formative while utlilizinf the medium of graphic novel! I will say it was sometimes hard to follow each individual person from the art style, but I do like how the sections were divided. Would make for a great edition to any gender studies curriculum!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Transphobia, and Lesbophobia

Moderate: Bullying

bi_n_large's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Homophobia, Mental illness, Transphobia, Medical trauma, and Dysphoria

Moderate: Addiction, Biphobia, Deadnaming, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racism, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, and Abandonment

Minor: Ableism, Child abuse, and Antisemitism

ferdie's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

This is nuance and diligence and curiosity. "Fine" gave space to the questions and thoughts I've resented in my own head and gave access to a conversation. Thank you thank you thank you Rhea for making this conversation public and for adding yourself in too. We may not have answers, but we we do have connection 💓

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime and Homophobia

Moderate: Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Self harm, and Suicide attempt

katsmedialibrary's review against another edition

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia

Moderate: Homophobia

Minor: Suicide attempt

beckbex's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Homophobia, Self harm, and Transphobia

Moderate: Ableism, Alcoholism, Racism, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Biphobia and Emotional abuse

atlanticgiantpumpkin's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

3.5

I found it a bit hard to get into this book, just because I myself had so many similar experiences that for large chunks of the book, I didn’t feel that I was learning anything. Once I got into it, though, I was able to get through it. Very nice, a bit denser of a read than I was expecting for a graphic novel, but it was nice.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Homophobia, Misogyny, Transphobia, Grief, Suicide attempt, and Dysphoria

Moderate: Biphobia, Body shaming, Cursing, Deadnaming, Death, Racism, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Religious bigotry, Sexual harassment, and Classism

Nudity in various panels

krys_kilz's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

I really enjoyed this comic! It was really cool to read so many different perspectives and I appreciated the author's own experiences and self-reflection included throughout. It felt like the book was written with a lot of care.

A lot of Ewing's framing definitely fell more on the liberal side, but overall this was an incredible project and I will look out for what they publish in the future.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Racism, and Transphobia

Moderate: Mental illness, Suicide attempt, and Dysphoria

Minor: Pregnancy

ezwolf's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

This was a really amazing book that covered all kinds of topics and view points on the subjects of gender and sex and how a person related to them. The author’s pool of interviewees was based in the Midwest so it was a bit limited in that regard but they still had a wide range of view points in term of gender, race, and disability. 

With first the general topic just being how each person related to femininity and then moving on to different topics from there. 

While the author started this as a journey for their own self discovery, it does a great job showcasing how gender and sexuality and how we fit in to cishet or queer or white or able-bodied spaces is all dependent on our own experiences in life and there’s no be “right way” to experience life. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Body shaming, Bullying, Deadnaming, Homophobia, and Transphobia

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt