Reviews tagging 'Transphobia'

The Argonauts, by Maggie Nelson

17 reviews

pang's review against another edition

reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Death of parent, and Sexual content

Moderate: Stalking and Grief

Minor: Transphobia

aliciae08's review against another edition

reflective medium-paced

3.0

I don’t know how to articulate my thoughts on this book. I know what I read, but if I were asked to describe this to someone, I just wouldn’t be able to.

It both reads like someone’s journal—scattered, but with the central theme hidden inside; and it also reads like someone’s xotero—their notes on articles that moved them just enough to be considered for a dissertation.

I didn’t love this book, but I definitely didn’t hate it either. It’s solidly a 3 for me. Sometimes the writing was pretentious and the sentences convoluted, but other times they were clear. Nelson talks honestly about motherhood and birthing, what her relationship looks like to her with a gender fluid partner and how their life is made up with all it’s mess, all it’s grief/fear and all it’s love. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy

Moderate: Death of parent and Transphobia

Minor: Cancer, Stalking, and Murder

souplover2001's review against another edition

informative

4.25

need to revisit this if/when i consider having children

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy

Moderate: Sexual content, Stalking, and Transphobia

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

skudiklier's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.75

I found this really interesting and thoughtful and compelling. I'm not sure I'd say I loved it or anything like that, but I was engaged the whole time and especially loved her thoughts on motherhood and queerness. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy

Moderate: Sexual content, Child death, and Mental illness

Minor: Transphobia

Childbirth

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

skippyfitzroy's review

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Medical content, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Transphobia, Homophobia, and Stalking

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