Reviews tagging 'Sexism'

Ten Steps to Nanette: A Memoir Situation by Hannah Gadsby

34 reviews

zombiezami's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Mental illness, Hate crime, Lesbophobia, Sexism, Violence, Homophobia, Transphobia, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Ableism, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Rape, Colonisation, Death, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Medical trauma, Racism, Pedophilia, Medical content, Religious bigotry, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Alcoholism, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Suicide, Alcohol, Terminal illness, Cancer, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Mass/school shootings

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rhiannonhoward's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Addiction, Hate crime, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Lesbophobia, Toxic relationship, Homophobia, Miscarriage, Body shaming, Abortion, Classism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Self harm, Sexism, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Misogyny, Fatphobia, and Alcoholism

squeakfan's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

Every bit has heart breaking, inspiring, insightful, and as articulate as one could imagine it would be. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Violence, and Sexism

Moderate: Pedophilia and Rape

ari_af's review against another edition

emotional funny informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

Maybe it is because I saw myself in so many of these pages or Hannah is just a really good storyteller that can also make you laugh.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia

Moderate: Sexual assault, Violence, Sexism, Rape, Child abuse, Body shaming, Suicidal thoughts, and Hate crime

shirarweiss's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective fast-paced

5.0

Beautiful heartwrenching hilarious vulnerable intimate gut punch. All the things. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Misogyny, Rape, Transphobia, Ableism, Body shaming, Gaslighting, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Cancer, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Bullying, Lesbophobia, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and Suicide

shortstackz's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful reflective slow-paced

5.0

If you are a fan of Hannah Gadsby's performances, I highly recommend this in audiobook format. They lay their life bare, looking the hardest moments of their life directly in the face while still being kind to their "villains". That being said it is not something that everyone can read, it deals with a lot of the nuance of moving through trauma after rape or the systemic oppression of being a queer person before marriage was even a possibility. Please proceed with caution.

It's a story told honestly and gives context to the world around itself. I love how they contextualize Tasmania and the political climate of Australia in reference to their own journey through developing as an undiagnosed neurodivergent human. Hannah put forth the effort of acknowledging where their own privilege lies, and unapologetically says "please see the affected group for more on that". At it's heart, ten steps to Nanette is the directors cut of the Netflix special Nanette. The audiobook is definitely worth it on this one

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Self harm, Sexism, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Grief, Homophobia, Rape, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Dysphoria, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

ciaomara's review against another edition

dark emotional funny medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Homophobia, Violence, and Ableism

Moderate: Rape and Drug abuse

augustar14's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative medium-paced

5.0

Like Nanette but for an entire book.  Exceeded my expectations and I was already delighted to see that it was read by Hannah herself.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Panic attacks/disorders, Lesbophobia, Eating disorder, Chronic illness, Bullying, Body shaming, Misogyny, Mental illness, Hate crime, Grief, Cancer, Abandonment, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Ableism, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Homophobia

Moderate: Classism, Cancer, Chronic illness, Cursing, Addiction, and Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Rape

mads_jpg's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny reflective slow-paced

3.75

Bloody funny and emotional but also bloody long. I genuinely really enjoyed it but I do wish some parts were edited down just a liiiittle bit more, but I can see with a story this personal it must've been hard to cut it down. If you liked Nanette then you'll obviously like this.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Fatphobia, Grief, Hate crime, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Outing, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

raisinreads's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring

3.75

Took me a bit to get into, but i did enjoy it; i love Hannah and hope she's doing well :)

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Fatphobia, Hate crime, Homophobia, Misogyny, Body shaming, Lesbophobia, and Sexual harassment