Reviews tagging 'Ableism'

Ten Steps to Nanette: A Memoir Situation by Hannah Gadsby

40 reviews

nosmallthing's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Hate crime, Mental illness, and Homophobia

Moderate: Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Sexual violence, Body shaming, Drug use, Fatphobia, Ableism, and Suicidal thoughts

sohva's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful informative medium-paced

4.5

Great description of both growing up qutistic and queer but also of the process of creating comedy. My only major complaint is that the book dragged a bit occasionally. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia and Rape

Moderate: Ableism

jordansmoot's review against another edition

dark funny reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Sexual assault, Ableism, Child abuse, Rape, and Violence

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

biscuithead's review against another edition

challenging dark funny informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

Haven't looked into all the Pablo Picasso stuff but the "feedback" I read on it reinforces my opinion that most people would rather dog pile on someone for laughs or to signal that they're "smart" and "hip" and "cool" instead of having a single nuanced brain cell. If you didn't like whatever Hannah was saying with the Picasso exhibit just say that and move on, or just don't say anything at all! I'm tired of cruel takes. Anyways this was a good memoir and I'd read another one. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Homophobia, Hate crime, Rape, and Violence

Moderate: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, and Bullying

Minor: Drug use, Fatphobia, and Classism

erebus53's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

This is a book I find it really hard to review. For starters If you don't know who Hannah Gadsby is, you probably ought to see the Netflix version of Nanette first. It provides a lot of context that you would probably gain insight from. I'm really grateful that this version of the book is narrated by the author. I think it would lose a lot of its oomph if someone else was narrating it for her.. it just wouldn't fit.

Nanette and the story of the creation thereof, is an exercise (exorcise) in trauma, in violence and exclusion meted out upon a Neurodivergent (in her case Autistic ADHD) lesbian woman from Tasmania (in Australia). There is profanity and no holds barred descriptions of medicalised womanhood, sexual assault, rape, bad dad jokes, and physical violence. The whole thing is designed to be in your face, because too may people just don't engage with the things that happen to you if you are underprivileged. 

As a result this book is full of jabs at cis-het-white-men.. but that is because it's less problematic to "punch up" than down. Gadsby is deliberately seeking to subvert the form of comedy, to parody the man-and-the-mic standup look, and to kick the audience in the gut with a bit of a wakeup call.

Yes of course I am biased. I'm also a vagina wielding Autistic f*** up. I know how it is.  Life doesn't ever really stop breaking you, but you do tend to learn survival skills along the way. I own my privilege.. there are plenty of things that I have going for me that mean that people take me seriously. I'm not brown, I spell conventionally.. I can define conventionally.. my parents were both together in their own home before my mother died and I inherited enough to buy my own mortgage (lucky me!) So yes, I am biased in my opinion of this book, but I like to think that it's because I am the target audience. I see my like, in Hannah Gadsby. She's about my age, also brought up in the Antipodes, and she wrote this book for the brethren and sistren who have also dealt with being othered for their sex, gender, presentation, sexual orientation, neurotype, sensitivities, and benign differences.

Bloody good book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Alcohol, Body shaming, Cursing, Excrement, Grief, Lesbophobia, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Sexism, Blood, Dysphoria, Ableism, Drug use, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Rape

burdasnest's review against another edition

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

5.0

I know this memoir details the ways in which Hannah Gadsby's brain has not been historically valued, but truly no other brain could have produced this funny, subversive, relatable, trauma-dumpster-fire of a work. I truly believe their unique way of thinking has gotten at intersectional issues that have yet to be recognized academically, all while just trying to take up their proper space in the world and reduce the burden of trauma for people to come.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Injury/Injury detail, Homophobia, Sexual violence, Misogyny, Medical trauma, Hate crime, Ableism, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual assault, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, and Lesbophobia

Moderate: Rape

Minor: Racism, Pedophilia, Genocide, Abortion, Addiction, and Police brutality

emflipspages's review against another edition

inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia and Violence

Moderate: Ableism

sarahelem's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective medium-paced

5.0

What a bloody fantastic read. I loved Nanette and reading Gadsby's mémoir solidified my appreciation and love for this comedian and author (and human). The way she talks about misogyny in comedy, queer rights, and neurodiversity is poignant and provides essential content on these matters. A must read, in my opinion. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Cursing, Colonisation, Classism, Body shaming, Sexual harassment, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Misogyny, Lesbophobia, Sexism, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Gaslighting, Dysphoria, Homophobia, and Violence

Minor: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Drug use, Cancer, Excrement, Outing, Abortion, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Pedophilia, Body shaming, Emotional abuse, and Medical trauma

carleesi's review against another edition

5.0

Five stars without question. 

Amazing. Tear jerking. Hilarious. Heart breaking. Gut punching. Beautiful.

Hannah’s reflections on neurodivergence were incredibly powerful and timely for my own struggles with executive dysfunction and learning to accept myself for how my anxious OCD brain works. 

I’m struggling to find words for just how powerful this whole book is. I felt every word deep down. Hannah is a remarkable storyteller, writer, entertainer and commentator. It is truly a gift that she chooses to share her voice with us all.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Rape, Homophobia, Sexual violence, Pedophilia, Violence, Child abuse, and Ableism