Reviews tagging 'Deadnaming'

Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe

46 reviews

awalsh1212001's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Dysphoria

Moderate: Alcoholism, Deadnaming, Misogyny, Transphobia, and Alcohol

Minor: Body shaming and Bullying

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

finnthehuman217's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted fast-paced

4.75

I loved this book, it’s the audio version of a graphic novel and the story was good I just wish it was longer! So cute with full cast! 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Deadnaming, Transphobia, Medical trauma, 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

zydecovivo's review against another edition

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

snackykennedy's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny informative inspiring fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism and Sexual content

Moderate: Deadnaming and Vomit

snowcrocs's review against another edition

informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

Gender Queer is a quick read that holds a lot of wisdom in its pages. Queer and trans people will find many moments of resonance, and I see this book being an invaluable resource for friends and family members trying to better understand their non-binary (or otherwise trans or queer) loved one(s).

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Content Warnings

Minor: Deadnaming, Sexual content, Blood, Vomit, Medical trauma, and Dysphoria

felicityebhaslin's review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Transphobia, Medical content, and Acephobia/Arophobia

Minor: Cancer, Chronic illness, Deadnaming, Transphobia, Excrement, and Vomit

creatingavery's review against another edition

hopeful informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

saraellenme's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Deadnaming and Acephobia/Arophobia