Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

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

9 reviews

kass_e_'s review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

The only reason I took off a quarter star is because the book could already use a 3rd edition. I definitely recommend reading this edition over the 1st if you can. A few things were said about non-binary identities I didn’t exactly agree with. Probably two sentences out of the entire book that is otherwise a very moving experience to read as a young trans person. I wanted to better understand my place in the world and the people and events that came before me and now I feel that I have. It’s a humbling reading experience, personally anyways. I’d recommend this to any queer or trans person especially but really anyone who just wanted to get a trans historian’s history of trans people in America.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Homophobia, Sexism, Terminal illness, Transphobia, Violence, Religious bigotry, Outing, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Biphobia, Deadnaming, Death, Police brutality, Medical content, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Sexual assault and Sexual content

All of the “graphic” tags are in the context of “historian telling you events that happened and the causes and consequences of them “. They can still be disturbing. The chapter “The Difficult Decades” (referring to the 70s and 80s)was notably a hard one for me due to descriptions of transphobia, transmisogyny, HIV, and death. Also none of these tags are perpetrated by the author to my knowledge, only ever described.

maggieparedesauthor's review against another edition

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4.0

This book read more like a high school textbook so I struggled to get through parts of it, but the resources (websites, laws, etc) mentioned were vital for me to know about. Also, there were many incidents and law cases that were shared in this book that I didn’t know about.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Deadnaming, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Homophobia, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Transphobia, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Suicide attempt, Murder, Lesbophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Classism

brookey8888's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.5

This was good. I learned a lot and had things refreshed for me, but because it was short it was just information after information and I found it hard to take in at times. If this was longer and things were expanded on I think it would have been more beneficial for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Sexual assault, Suicide, Transphobia, Police brutality, Murder, and Outing

purplepenning's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.25

Read during the #TransRightsReadathon. A good overview, updated in 2017, of trans history from the 1950s on. It focuses on human rights and social justice in historical social context, but does include some scientific/medical history as well. The glossary at the beginning is useful, but be advised, as the author points out, that language can change rapidly, so it should be a starting point and guide to understanding the terminology used in the book rather than a definitive source for current usage.     

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Homophobia, and Transphobia

Moderate: Confinement, Deadnaming, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Violence, Forced institutionalization, and Medical trauma

Minor: Deadnaming and Suicide attempt

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

silverleaf's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Transphobia, Violence, and Medical trauma

schopenhauers_poodle's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

3.25

Very accessible, concise book that's focused on transgender history in the US (only). I found it informative and moving. Be aware that the latter portion of the book is becoming rapidly outdated given current events and some of the terms used might be falling out of favor. If you need a starting point, this book is an ok one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

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