Reviews tagging 'Transphobia'

The Argonauts, by Maggie Nelson

17 reviews

jacinderr's review against another edition

funny informative reflective slow-paced

2.75

I listened to the graphic birth scene while I was having cold sweat diarrhea and those two things combined created a truly cinematic experience.

Other than that this book was too smart for me, I enjoyed parts and some bits really stuck with me but it came off too pretentious and academic at times. Very much from a white woman's perspective. Don’t regret reading it tho 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Homophobia, and Transphobia

Minor: Abortion

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

megg's review against another edition

Ugh I was expecting something akin to stone butch or bechdel, and I could see this was trying to be that, but utterly failing. Don't whine to me about how hard having a partner who wants hrt or top surgery is. And I don't care about ur obscure philosophy references. Completely insufferable.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria, Infertility, Medical content, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Transphobia

bryelle's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy

Moderate: Transphobia and Homophobia

emilymdxn's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy and Stalking

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, and Transphobia

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