Reviews tagging 'Transphobia'

Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality by Julia Shaw

9 reviews

takarakei's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

4.5

The difference, however, is that as a bisexual person you are constantly asked Why? Why do you want these things? Why do you have sex with the people you do? How can you know this is what you really want? Are you sure? How can you be sure? What if you change your mind? I dream of a world where people stop asking bisexual people these questions and instead ask themselves these questions.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, and Transphobia

Moderate: Sexual violence, Sexism, and Sexual assault

Minor: Acephobia/Arophobia, Racism, and Rape

ienbdri's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Bullying, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Hate crime, Sexism, Religious bigotry, Racism, Transphobia, and Sexual violence

Minor: Rape, Violence, Murder, Misogyny, Medical trauma, Pedophilia, Self harm, Outing, Mental illness, Infidelity, Pregnancy, and Suicide

bryelle's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective fast-paced

4.5

This book is really good and talks about facts and statistics about being bisexual.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Stalking, Homophobia, Rape, and Sexual violence

danajoy's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative sad

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Biphobia, and Transphobia

siebensommer's review against another edition

hopeful informative sad

4.25

loved the combination of political, scientific, historical facts & the authors own experience & input.

favourite part for sure was the one abt clothing / styling and the meaning interpreted in one single outfit people meet me in. the struggle 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia and Outing

Moderate: Lesbophobia and Sexism

Minor: Pedophilia, War, Transphobia, Religious bigotry, Violence, and Sexual content

bashsbooks's review against another edition

hopeful informative slow-paced

3.75

This book is informative... to a newly bisexual person entering the community or a particularly good ally. But the advertising made me hopeful that it would be more for someone like me (someone who has been out and entrenched in the bisexual community for a long time). And while I did not feel unwelcome to this book, much of its contents were explaining things I already knew. Therefore, I recommend it as a touchstone and basic primer for bi studies.

*Also, this book treats all multisexual identities as falling 'under the bi umbrella', so if you are pan, poly, omni, etc. this book was written with you in mind, but you may not enjoy the bi-prioritization in the language.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia

Minor: Bullying, Sexism, Violence, Racism, Ableism, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Religious bigotry, Hate crime, Sexual violence, Transphobia, Mental illness, and Rape

All of the content warnings are discussed in an academic sense; they are not described directly in detail as if someone is experiencing them, but rather, the author goes into depth about the vulerabilities of the bisexual (and queer) community.

questingnotcoasting's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

3.5

I was intrigued by this because bisexuality is under-represented in media and I thought reading a whole book on it would be helpful. It covers some very interesting topics, includes a lot of research and is written in a very accessible way, all of which I appreciated. I found the science parts the most fascinating. However as someone who's read a lot of queer non fiction and knows quite a few bi people, most of this wasn't ground-breaking information to me. It's only just over 250 pages so I think if it had been longer and was able to delve deeper into the topics I might have gotten more from it. However I'm glad it exists and think it would be a valuable read for a lot of people. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia

sammies_shelf's review against another edition

challenging informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia

Moderate: Transphobia and Homophobia

Minor: Sexual violence

mobygrapes's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

An amazing, groundbreaking book about bisexuality and really the whole rainbow spectrum 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Biphobia, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, and Transphobia