Reviews tagging 'Dysphoria'

Gender Queer: A Memoir Deluxe Edition by Maia Kobabe

278 reviews

nokreadingnook's review against another edition

informative reflective slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria and Blood

joscelynhe's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Blood, Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Dysphoria, and Sexual content

savvylit's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

Gender Queer is a beautifully illustrated and elucidating memoir about one person's journey. From Kobabe, I feel like I learned so much about dysphoria, self-discovery, preferred pronouns, asexuality, and gender. Though this memoir focuses solely on Kobabe's specific journey, eir story is very captivating and illustrative (literally and figuratively).

Recently, Liz @thiefofmemory posted an incredible review of this memoir that does it much better justice than I could. Please check out her review here (https://www.instagram.com/p/C22mpOGrQXf) to get an even better idea of why Gender Queer is a powerful and worthwhile read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Dysphoria, Gaslighting, and Body shaming

bratlingling's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced

4.25

Beautiful and reflective graphic novel about the author's coming out story and relationship with gender. I could relate a lot but also got many new perspectives and I love media that makes us more empathetic. Also beautiful art style. And loved the fandom-references, they were very relatable (unfortunately)

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Dysphoria and Blood

Minor: Vomit and Alcohol

sapphic_alpaca's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Body horror, Medical trauma, Dysphoria, Sexual content, and Blood

Moderate: Excrement, Vomit, Deadnaming, and Misogyny

kathleenivy's review against another edition

hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Dysphoria and Medical trauma

Minor: Sexual content, Homophobia, and Lesbophobia

zackarinareads's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative fast-paced

4.75

This is so cool and I feel seen in so many parts.

I'm glad I got to read it as research for my term paper on book bans in the US.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria

Moderate: Medical trauma and Blood

Minor: Transphobia

pandabearshape's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Blood, Dysphoria, and Medical content

Moderate: Transphobia, Sexism, and Sexual content

thesesusspace's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

This book hit too close to home in a good way, as someone who identifies as a trans-masc non-binary person it was nice to read some of the same experiences I had/have (especially with coming out and correcting people on pronouns), it's a nice reminder that I'm not totally alone in having these experiences. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria

Moderate: Transphobia and Blood

Minor: Vomit, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Sexual content

annaofjesup's review against another edition

reflective medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Body shaming, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Bullying, Dysphoria, and Medical content

Minor: Alcohol, Cancer, Chronic illness, Pregnancy, and Transphobia