Reviews tagging 'Transphobia'

Pageboy by Elliot Page

590 reviews

miasarice's review

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring sad fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia and Homophobia

ellenewt's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia

cheryl_gramma's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content and Transphobia

Minor: Child abuse

runbeck's review

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Panic attacks/disorders, Stalking, Sexual assault, Lesbophobia, Sexual content, Medical content, Transphobia, and Body shaming

Minor: Excrement, Gaslighting, Drug use, Alcohol, Deadnaming, Eating disorder, Outing, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Suicidal thoughts

nad_books623's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

“It is painful the unraveling, but it leads you to you.”

This book would be 5 stars if the timeline wasn’t so confusing. I had to constantly go back or think about the timeline. Due to Elliot mentioning something where he’s 10 for example and then when he’s 33. If it was in chronological order I think it would be easier to piece together. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Bullying, Eating disorder, Lesbophobia, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Child abuse, and Transphobia

Moderate: Misogyny and Mental illness

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Pandemic/Epidemic, Stalking, and Vomit

claireltravers's review against another edition

emotional informative slow-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Transphobia, Stalking, Sexual assault, Alcohol, Lesbophobia, Homophobia, and Rape

fanboyriot's review

emotional inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.0

Deciding to love yourself was the whole point of this book.  All the ups and downs of life, the self discovery of a trans person.  The pain of being trans and living in a world not built for trans people.

While some of the pacing was a bit awkward and the timeline was difficult to follow but I ended up loving listening to this; especially since the author was also the narrator. 

I learned a lot about this author and I’m so happy that he was in a place to write this book and share it with the world.  I also liked how he mentioned several times about his privilege in a very genuine way, actually acknowledging the problems with trans healthcare and other issues as well.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Outing, Toxic relationship, Dysphoria, Sexual violence, Homophobia, Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual assault, Hate crime, Transphobia, Self harm, Sexual content, and Cursing

Moderate: Eating disorder, Lesbophobia, Blood, Deadnaming, Mental illness, Stalking, Rape, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Bullying, Child abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Abandonment, Sexism, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Misogyny, Body shaming, Pandemic/Epidemic, Religious bigotry, Classism, Medical content, and Drug use

halem13's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Child abuse, Bullying, Eating disorder, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Stalking

lindsaymck's review

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

3.75

It feels odd to give a rating to a memoir, especially one that handles such sensitive experiences. I appreciated the insights EP was willing to share about coming of age in the movie industry and how he constantly navigated his gender inside their rigid expectations. His writing style is sometimes concise and simple, staying towards the surface level of reflection, and other times he includes some poetic prose and dives deep, truly changing my perceptions. 

The non-linear structure took a minute to adjust to, but I tried to see that through the lens of natural storytelling as memories and details and revelations came to him. I wonder if a chronological storytelling could’ve helped me understand him better, but think it being non-linear lends itself to the chaos of his hard-fought journey towards his true self. 

I am very glad I listened to the book rather than read it myself. Hearing him share his story increases my connection to it. That being said, there is still so much I feel like I don’t know about him, things that could’ve absolutely been explored. The book did take a very personal approach to all of the complex issues he has faced - identity, gender, sexuality, eating disorders, and mental health, among others - but I still felt like I didn’t know him at the end. That thought, though, made me check my own entitlement - I am not entitled to know anything about his experiences other than what he chooses to share - and I do appreciate what he does share for what it reveals about him and all that he has gone through to become who he is. 

It seems to me that he did not want his book to be a voice for all transgender people or a source of education for those wishing to learn more about transgenderism. He could have just wanted it to be a cathartic collection of his own experiences, the act of putting them into words adding to the catharsis and giving him the freedom he deserves to feel. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Body shaming, Transphobia, Outing, and Self harm

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

katherinejayne's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

4.0

An incredibly raw book that shows the complexity of coming to terms with yourself. 
One thing I liked about the writing was the brutal honesty and the push/pull tension. There was a real sense of reaching a moment of clarity then retreating. 
Whilst it’s not an experience I can fully ever understand, I think most of us can empathise with coming to terms with elements of ourselves we’ve been told aren’t ideal. 
Perhaps that, plus Page’s easy writing style made this so gripping for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Self harm, and Transphobia