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the_true_monroe's review
4.0
Graphic: Homophobia, Emotional abuse, Transphobia, Dysphoria, Sexual harassment, Lesbophobia, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Child abuse, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Religious bigotry, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Medical trauma
Minor: Racism, Pandemic/Epidemic, Infidelity, Alcohol, Blood, Toxic friendship, Terminal illness, Stalking, Car accident, Eating disorder, and Drug use
stephmcoakley's review
4.25
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Ableism, Addiction, Blood, Body horror, Suicidal thoughts, Biphobia, Deadnaming, Drug use, Stalking, Injury/Injury detail, Alcoholism, Hate crime, Medical trauma, Sexual assault, Vomit, Body shaming, Self harm, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Death, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Excrement, Lesbophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Outing, Panic attacks/disorders, and Transphobia
stevia333k's review
4.25
Anyways, after a while certain parts about being trans were like oh good my transfemme self isn't alone.
The relationships though & the shadow work kinda went over my head because I'm aromantic but the workplace accident (because of how wreckless the directors were to black & queer lives) helped connect me to the kind of stuff he meant, so I am thankful he included workplace incidents like that.
Also the memoir isn't told as chronologically, so basically if you're taking notes then I recommend trying to make a character list sort of glossary since the time dimension doesn't sort them, but some segments are like public letters.
Graphic: Homophobia, Adult/minor relationship, Terminal illness, Dysphoria, Kidnapping, Medical content, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Rape, Toxic relationship, Vomit, War, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexism, Confinement, Death, Body shaming, Gaslighting, Xenophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Infidelity, Cancer, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Stalking, Torture, Violence, Blood, Hate crime, Sexual content, Transphobia, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Lesbophobia, Religious bigotry, Car accident, Gore, Grief, Body horror, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Self harm
marmaladereads's review against another edition
I love Elliott Page's work and I love him no less for having read this book, but I probably would not recommend this to other queer readers. This is an incredibly difficult, depressing, and mostly tragic story of mental illness struggle, how cruel society is towards queer and trans people, and a first hand account of why trans people have such a high rate of mental illness and suicide.
There is an incredible amount of explicit, graphic on page homophobia, transphobia, and abuse in this book.
It's highly relatable, well written, and feels incredibly true, but also made me feel sad and scared about the state of the world, and I have quite enough of that in my life already, tyvm.
Do check the content warnings before reading.
Graphic: Deadnaming, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Stalking, Transphobia, Misogyny, Eating disorder, Rape, Panic attacks/disorders, Emotional abuse, Dysphoria, Lesbophobia, Sexual assault, Homophobia, Sexual harassment, Self harm, Sexual content, Hate crime, and Body shaming
moliviabow's review against another edition
4.0
Moderate: Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Lesbophobia, Body shaming, and Stalking
Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical trauma, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, and Outing
laughingrecord's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Medical content, Transphobia, Lesbophobia, Mental illness, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Misogyny, Bullying, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, and Drug use
Moderate: Blood
sorcha's review
4.0
Graphic: Bullying, Stalking, Transphobia, Sexual assault, Lesbophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Homophobia, Dysphoria, Sexual content, and Medical content
Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Religious bigotry, Misogyny, and Eating disorder
Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, Alcohol, Outing, Mental illness, Death, Drug use, Excrement, Deadnaming, Vomit, and Pandemic/Epidemic
heathen's review
5.0
Moderate: Self harm, Eating disorder, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, and Transphobia
hollifr's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Injury/Injury detail, Homophobia, Medical content, and Gore
kelisabeth's review
4.25
Graphic: Deadnaming, Grief, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Panic attacks/disorders, Religious bigotry, Dysphoria, Hate crime, Rape, Sexual content, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Biphobia, Child abuse, Sexual harassment, Alcoholism, Blood, Sexism, Toxic friendship, Stalking, Emotional abuse, Pandemic/Epidemic, Transphobia, Drug use, Medical content, Eating disorder, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Toxic relationship, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Physical abuse, and Self harm