Reviews tagging 'Sexual violence'

Pageboy by Elliot Page

108 reviews

phouka's review against another edition

funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Lesbophobia, Dysphoria, Deadnaming, Eating disorder, Hate crime, Child death, Homophobia, Stalking, Transphobia, Child abuse, and Sexual content

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Suicide, Drug use, Medical content, Body shaming, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Bullying, Car accident, and Rape

Minor: Pedophilia, Religious bigotry, Panic attacks/disorders, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Abandonment, Alcohol, Cancer, Self harm, Sexism, Mental illness, and Pandemic/Epidemic

caw21's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Outing, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Eating disorder, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Lesbophobia, Hate crime, and Self harm

mels_reading_log's review

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced

5.0

This book was so good, but in that way that breaks your heart. I hate that Elliot had to deal with everything he has and didn’t always have people around him to make him feel safe. I’m so happy that he had the courage to write this book and that it has become so popular. It’s so important and empowering to hear queer and trans voices. This is just one trans person’s story, but hearing the joy and relief in his voice when he talked of being out and surgery gives me hope for others, that they feel safe enough to be themselves as well.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Sexual violence, Transphobia, Homophobia, Medical content, Mental illness, Sexism, Body horror, Eating disorder, Gaslighting, Sexual content, Alcohol, Hate crime, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Bullying, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual harassment, Toxic friendship, Deadnaming, Sexual assault, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Outing, and Suicidal thoughts

stevia333k's review

dark tense slow-paced

4.25

The last 3rd was good, and i say this because the first 2 thirds were violent as hell. I had to learn that he was in a lot of action movies basically in order to handle it & i also could only listen 10 minutes at a time at triple speed. 

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.

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Content Warnings

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

dorhastings's review

Equal measures, the following two reasons:

1. The organization (lack thereof) was absolutely all over the place. I don't mind a nonlinear plot, including in a memoir, but this was particularly difficult for me to get through.
2. Endless accounts of sexual assault and sexual harassment. It is absolutely awful that Page endured all of this hateful behavior, no question. I could not handle it. At just under 2 hours, I could not fathom how I would listen to another 6 hours of this book. I gave myself another day, and I just could not listen to it anymore. Switched audiobooks mid-drive.

I've read elsewhere that the book gets better, and I'm sure that it in some way makes a valuable contribution to our growing number of queer nonfiction. But I can say with almost 100% certainty that I would not enjoy continuing this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

lavaly_1's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia and Homophobia

Moderate: Sexual violence, Eating disorder, and Self harm

eveningcrickets's review

challenging dark emotional inspiring sad tense fast-paced

4.0

Oof, a difficult read, but such an important one. Loved hearing Elliot read the book. Loved reading this and realizing certain things about my own childhood that Elliot brought to life. Incredible, authentic, relatable, and most of all, very human. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Homophobia, Sexual violence, and Emotional abuse

marythekoreanfoodie's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

3.75

This was one of the first memoirs I read that didn’t make me absolutely cringe with discomfort, and it’s very real, raw, and vulnerable. However, the timeline is really all over the place and got confusing at times. I opted for the audiobook, as Page narrates it himself, and his voice can drawl on a bit. I’m not sure if this was intentional due to the subject matter or because he’s not a great audiobook narrator. I’d recommend this to most anyone wanting to understand transgenderism more. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual violence and Sexual assault

amarige's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

A beautiful exploration of gender and sexuality, and a reminder that self-discovery is not linear, and that there’s no timeline for finding your authentic self.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Homophobia

re_oanslay's review

emotional reflective slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Toxic relationship, Body shaming, Bullying, Dysphoria, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Stalking, Sexual violence, Sexism, Homophobia, and Emotional abuse