Reviews tagging 'Homophobia'

Transgender History: The Roots of Today's Revolution by Susan Stryker

18 reviews

bendy_bookworm's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

This book was extremely informative and enlightened me to so many different historical events and perspectives I wasn’t previously aware of, even as someone who is non-binary. I definitely recommend this for those looking for a well-written historical review of the transgender community.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Racism, Sexism, Transphobia, and Lesbophobia

keeganrb's review

challenging informative slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Homophobia, and Transphobia

Moderate: Racial slurs, Racism, and Rape

Minor: Biphobia, Sexual assault, and Forced institutionalization

biblioghoul's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Homophobia, Transphobia, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Death, Sexual assault, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, and Outing

dumaurier's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Misogyny, and Transphobia

herelieshenry's review against another edition

informative slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia and Transphobia

solly's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring slow-paced

4.0

This is my hundredth book of the year!! I started it sooo long ago, I take so long to read non-fiction physical books!

It was excellent though, I learnt some stuff, realized TERFs have been using the same tired arguments for way longer than I thought, and it deepened my pride and determination as a queer activist and LGBT+ centre volunteer. I WISH there were queer history books about French queer history but I can't really find any, so I'll read all the US and UK one instead.

Overall excellent and informative, but the first 40-pages chapter full of definitions made me put it down for a while. It's also very academic so not a *good* time or *fun* time but it's full of information. I knew about a decent number of events mentionned because of assignements I did on US queer history but I still learnt stuff especially since I'm young and it's not my country's politics.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deadnaming, Hate crime, Homophobia, and Transphobia

somestuff's review against another edition

dark hopeful informative inspiring fast-paced

5.0

Clear, concise, and informative. An incredible primer on trans history in the usa. 

Only nitpick is that I wish there were more specific footnote/endnotes that were more comprehensive though Stryker does include further readings and general citations for each chapter.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Racial slurs, Racism, Suicide, Transphobia, and Suicide attempt

ashheinrich's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Minor: Biphobia, Deadnaming, Genocide, Hate crime, Homophobia, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Transphobia, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, and Medical trauma