Reviews tagging 'Cancer'

The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson

20 reviews

garynoplastie's review against another edition

reflective slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Stalking, Transphobia, Medical content, Grief, Deadnaming, and Infertility

Minor: Alcoholism

jonsnowsmanbun's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Sexual content, Transphobia, Terminal illness, Stalking, Miscarriage, Mental illness, Hate crime, Fatphobia, Cancer, Death of parent, and Abortion

Minor: Excrement

taviarz's review

challenging reflective slow-paced

4.0

I enjoyed the talks about motherhood, gender, and sexuality. This honestly probably would’ve been higher if there wasn’t any uncomfortable talks about race?? Like naming her son an Indigenous name when both her and her partner are white gives me the ick. I just wish white feminists would just not do appropriative things or feel the need to talk about race. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Cancer

wild_er_ness's review

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

3.5

would’ve liked more about their family/lived experience, or from the perspective of harry himself. a more collaborative piece between the author and harry might have touched me more (like the final few pages did). 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Stalking

Moderate: Pedophilia and Homophobia

Minor: Cancer

cryptidcas's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative tense slow-paced

4.5

confusing, poor structure, amazing points

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death of parent, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Grief, Pregnancy, Sexism, Stalking, and Transphobia

Minor: Abortion

ste11a's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy and Sexual content

Minor: Transphobia and Cancer

mallory10100's review against another edition

emotional informative lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.0

poetic, LGBTQ, memoir 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death of parent, Homophobia, Infertility, Lesbophobia, Medical content, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Transphobia, Terminal illness, and Dysphoria

Moderate: Alcohol, Blood, and Vomit

tabitha_isabelle's review against another edition

informative

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Medical content, Sexual content, Stalking, and Vomit

cheye13's review against another edition

emotional reflective fast-paced

4.0

Right off the bat, I enjoyed this very much. The poetic writing style was engaging and I found the stream of consciousness narrative easy to follow. The analysis of Self was very interesting and inspired further thought. There was a bit about a third of the way in that went a little too deep into theory and lost me for a bit, but the recovery afterward was wonderful.

While this is a book I think straights should read, I find myself reluctant to recommend it to anyone not queer, and the text itself explains why: "...the butch characters would call each other 'he' and 'him,' but in the outer world of grocery stores and authority figures, people would call them "she" and "her." The point wasn't that if the outer world were schooled appropriately re: the characters' preferred pronouns, everything would be right as rain. Because if the outsiders called the characters "he," it would be a different kind of he" (pg 8).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent

Moderate: Cancer, Grief, Terminal illness, and Stalking

Minor: Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Transphobia

There is brief discussion of child sexual abuse/assault scenes in literature.

daisymaytwizell's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced

4.0

Raises a lot of discussion points that I, as a pansexual woman who makes an active effort to read up on and consider LGBTQ+ issues, hadn't considered until exactly the moment she says them.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Transphobia, Terminal illness, Sexual content, and Cancer