Reviews tagging 'Slavery'

Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender by Kit Heyam

5 reviews

arinheck's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

Incredible. My favourite history book to date. Gave me a new perspective on how historians are taught to approach people from the past and why that has prevented more books like this one being written. Loved it so much. Cannot recommend it enough!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Transphobia, Xenophobia, and Colonisation

Moderate: Homophobia

Minor: Dysphoria

hazel_oat's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Transphobia, Violence, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Racism, Slavery, Violence, and Dysphoria

sydapel's review against another edition

challenging informative medium-paced

5.0

Incredibly thoughtful, detailed and informative examination of what gender has meant to different cultures and groups over history. Really made me consider how much of a social and political construct gender can be, and how it's possible to discuss it in a respectful and intriguing way. Kit does such a good job of bringing the figures they're writing about into a broader context, pushing the readers conceptions of gender and identity. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Slavery, and Colonisation

the_reading_wren's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Fascinating, challenging and most of all comforting. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Homophobia, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Transphobia, Lesbophobia, Outing, and Colonisation

Moderate: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Deadnaming, Genocide, Racism, Rape, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Cultural appropriation, Dysphoria, War, and Classism

Minor: Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, and Pandemic/Epidemic

zombiezami's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Deadnaming, Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Torture, Transphobia, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Murder, Sexual harassment, and Colonisation

Moderate: Confinement, Infertility, Infidelity, Slavery, Kidnapping, and Dysphoria

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Biphobia, Cursing, Pedophilia, Lesbophobia, War, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Eugenics, Intersexism, Incarceration