Reviews tagging 'Transphobia'
The Pirate Queen: In Search of Grace O'Malley and Other Legendary Women of the Sea by Barbara Sjoholm
1 review
breemeup's review against another edition
Cw: transmisogny, transphobia
Not only is this book NOT a history book (it really is just a tiresome memoir/travelogue where the author brags about how cool and adventurous she is), but i could NOT get past the blatant casual transmisogny that appears literally in the introduction! She mocks the Grace O'Malley figure in the museum by calling it a "transvestite" with a wig and it really just made me feel ill. Like who does that???
I bought this book expecting an interesting, well-researched exploration of women pirates but instead was confronted with blatant bigotry and the author's sense of inflated self-importance. Hard fucking pass
Not only is this book NOT a history book (it really is just a tiresome memoir/travelogue where the author brags about how cool and adventurous she is), but i could NOT get past the blatant casual transmisogny that appears literally in the introduction! She mocks the Grace O'Malley figure in the museum by calling it a "transvestite" with a wig and it really just made me feel ill. Like who does that???
I bought this book expecting an interesting, well-researched exploration of women pirates but instead was confronted with blatant bigotry and the author's sense of inflated self-importance. Hard fucking pass
Content Warnings
Moderate: Transphobia
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