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Transitional: In One Way or Another, We All Transition by Munroe Bergdorf

5 reviews

noahsingh's review

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Rape, Self harm, Violence, Sexual violence, Stalking, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Homophobia, Physical abuse, Pedophilia, Hate crime, Drug use, Bullying, Eating disorder, Police brutality, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Dysphoria, Drug abuse, and Child abuse

the_reading_wren's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

As expected from the amazingly talented Monroe Bergdorf, this book is written and structured brilliantly. I read it in a day but spent time allowing the emotive and thought-provoking moments to resonate with me. It’s so valuable to have the unfiltered voice of a trans person - especially a Black woman - available for people to hear, especially at the moment. Monroe describes in the book a friendship with another trans person who guided her at the start of her transition, and this book felt like Monroe doing this for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Stalking, Toxic relationship, Eating disorder, Transphobia, Addiction, Racism, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Misogyny, Rape, Self harm, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Drug use, and Dysphoria

Moderate: Blood, Mental illness, Abandonment, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic, Panic attacks/disorders, Abortion, Colonisation, and Medical content

rcsreads's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

"The goal is to collectively transition out of shame and into pride as a society."
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 Starting Pride month off with "Transitional" by Munroe Bergdorf. I've followed Munroe on social media for years and love her, so as soon as she released a book I made a special trip to Category is Books to pick up a copy. Obviously it's then sat on my shelves for a couple of months because who has ever bought a book and read it right away? Madness!
 Transitional is an autobiography but also has lots of information about Munroe's activism in feminism, trans rights and racism. It manages to be both very personal and highlight the issues faced more widely in these communities at the same time.
 There's a focus on growth, change and healing and the ways in which we all transition as people. She has, very successfully, tied her personal experience into a look at society as a whole that I think most people could relate to.
 TW for racism; homophobia and transphobia; sexual assault; self harm and eating disorders. 
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 10/10 recommended to everyone!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Bullying, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Self harm, Adult/minor relationship, Drug use, Racial slurs, Body shaming, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Homophobia, and Mental illness

intothevolcano's review against another edition

3.75

I'm in two minds about Transitional - I found the first half in particular extremely engaging and well-written, and I highlighted quite a few sections. However, as the book progresses, it loses track of its theme of "transition" somewhat. At times, this train of thought is replaced by strong feelings and righteous anger, and is significantly affecting - however, at other times the aim of the book becomes slightly confused. Transitional walks the line between being a memoir and an essay collection - sometimes more successfully than others. There are some really interesting considerations of various aspects of society here - not just being trans, but race, gender more generally, eating disorders, and sexual violence (and please do pay attention to any trigger warnings linked to these topics!). At points though, especially if you have read a lot of other books on these topics, there is a slight lack of both depth and emotional connection. I found Transitional to be a really interesting read, but the implementation could have been refined somewhat.
3.5 stars rounded up to 4.
Thanks to Bloomsbury and Netgalley for the ARC.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Rape, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Eating disorder, Transphobia, and Homophobia

livsliterarynook's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Self harm, Alcohol, Racism, Homophobia, Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Stalking, Rape, Eating disorder, and Transphobia