Reviews tagging 'Religious bigotry'

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

11 reviews

maggieparedesauthor's review against another edition

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Bullying, Cursing, Deadnaming, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Murder, Lesbophobia, Outing, Toxic friendship, Sexual harassment, and War

alexstartsthings's review

challenging informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Biphobia, Hate crime, Homophobia, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Transphobia, Violence, Religious bigotry, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Rape

lunxchloe's review against another edition

informative fast-paced

5.0

Probably my quickest non-fiction read ever. Shaw covers bi history and culture, talks about how science tried and tries to assess sexuality somewhat objectively and sprinkles in her own experiences as a bisexual woman.
I found this to be a very affirming read, considering how often I personally stumbled upon bi erasure. This book is one I'll probably never stop recommending to friends, no matter their sexuality, gender or relationship status.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Hate crime, Homophobia, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Religious bigotry, and Lesbophobia

Moderate: Bullying

ienbdri's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

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

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

lizwizwiz's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia

Moderate: Misogyny

Minor: Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Religious bigotry, and Sexual harassment

ruthhelizabeth's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful informative medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia

Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Outing, Sexual harassment, and Colonisation

onlyonebookshelf's review

hopeful informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Homophobia, and Lesbophobia

Moderate: Religious bigotry

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: Sexism and Lesbophobia

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

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

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.

pythonesque's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative sad fast-paced

3.75

Mainly focuses on Western problems with a quick glance at extreme cases of queer-phobia in Africa, but hey, there's not much adequate materials on this topic at all, so... Better a small fish than an empty dish

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Biphobia, Mental illness, Sexual violence, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Hate crime, Racism, Rape, Sexism, and Religious bigotry