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sarapriz's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Homophobia, Misogyny, Terminal illness, Transphobia, Medical content, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, and Pregnancy
moonyreadsbystarlight's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Alcoholism, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Sexual violence, Transphobia, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Lesbophobia
Moderate: Body shaming, Pedophilia, Racism, and Mass/school shootings
poenaestante's review against another edition
5.0
Minor: Medical content and Death of parent
milliebluecapon's review against another edition
3.75
Moderate: Sexual content
Minor: Body shaming, Cancer, Medical content, and Abortion
lottiegasp's review against another edition
4.75
I thought it had really interesting perspectives about being queer, feminist and shunning societal norms while cherishing love and family. Rightfully so, a lot of feminism focusses on empowering women and genderqueer people to be single and child-free, to not be stuck in unfulfilling and unequal relationships, and to find and cherish love elsewhere. But for people who do seek and find love through their romantic partner and children, I think it is important to consider how to do these things in a way that does not simply reinforce the hetero status quo. This is something Nelson grapples with, while portraying how she and Harry have approached things.
At some parts in the middle I found the writing and references to other scholars a bit dense. Nevertheless, I overall appreciated the rich, aesthetic literary writing style, which is perhaps more common in fiction than memoirs.
Graphic: Sexual content, Medical content, and Pregnancy
Minor: Deadnaming and Transphobia
There are explicit descriptions of consensual sex. And detailed description of pregnancy and labour. There are some brief descriptions of transphobia, but the book focusses much more on trans joy. The author deadnames her partner once, presumably with his permission. There is a gutwrenching description of a parent dying, which is beautifully written but very sad.steveatwaywords's review against another edition
5.0
This book is not easily navigable. While written in fragmentary pieces, the narrative is delivered in its entirety, a submersion of its whole, and one wonders at its turnings. Nelson writes while on a subway, at a cafe, surrounded by tumult, but what she offers is insular and contained, a cerebral dissection of her own life and how words, language, people shift. Derrida remarked that he wondered most about the sex lives of philosophers. Nelson has here made a powerful bridge (more a marriage) between the abstraction of teleology and the workings of body.
Graphic: Sexual content and Death of parent
Moderate: Cancer, Medical content, Grief, and Stalking
Minor: Biphobia, Transphobia, and Murder
maess's review against another edition
4.75
Moderate: Addiction, Cancer, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Infidelity, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Transphobia, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Stalking, Abortion, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Outing, and Alcohol
softanimal's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Sexual content, Medical content, and Death of parent
garynoplastie's review against another edition
3.75
Graphic: Cancer, Death of parent, and Pregnancy
Moderate: Deadnaming, Infertility, Transphobia, Medical content, Grief, and Stalking
Minor: Alcoholism
suspicious_salmon's review against another edition
3.25
Graphic: Death of parent and Pregnancy
Moderate: Infertility, Sexual content, Transphobia, Medical content, Lesbophobia, and Dysphoria
Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Deadnaming, Miscarriage, Terminal illness, Excrement, Grief, Stalking, and Cultural appropriation