Reviews tagging 'Terminal illness'

The Argonauts, by Maggie Nelson

6 reviews

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

lilysendroff's review

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

4.25

Combination of theory and memoir, muddies the binary of transgressive and normative through reflections on queerness, motherhood, pregnancy, and family. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Death of parent, Cultural appropriation, and Stalking

Moderate: Addiction and Sexism

Minor: Abortion

Frequent mentions of Buddhism, reference to a theorist who makes questionable claims about being pregnant with mixed children as a white woman, and naming their child with a Native American name are all aspects of the books that entirely fail to interrogate the role whiteness, which is both jarring and disappointing.

suspicious_salmon's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Pregnancy

Moderate: Dysphoria, Medical content, Sexual content, Lesbophobia, Transphobia, and Infertility

Minor: Alcoholism, Cultural appropriation, Excrement, Grief, Deadnaming, Addiction, Miscarriage, Stalking, and Terminal illness

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

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