Reviews tagging 'Fatphobia'

Welcome to St. Hell: My Trans Teen Misadventure: A Graphic Novel by Lewis Hancox

5 reviews

bashsbooks's review against another edition

funny hopeful lighthearted reflective fast-paced

3.0

Welcome to St. Hell is a fine graphic novel. I think that it's important to have more trans narratives, especially easily accessible ones. And this is a pretty quick, simple, and informative read. Hancox is bares a lot of his personal struggles, and I applaud him for the levity he's willing to inject in his reflections. But... it was not that interesting to me personally. It was a fine book. Just a little boring for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Cursing, Lesbophobia, Eating disorder, and Bullying

Moderate: Fatphobia and Misogyny

Minor: Alcohol, Medical content, Vomit, Medical trauma, and Outing

daniellekat's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative fast-paced

3.75

Good, but I wish there was a bit more on life post-transition. I appreciate this work and enjoyed that the story was mostly light despite being such a challenging time for the author. The artwork was interesting and helped to lighten the mood, but I found the text a little hard to comprehend at times (although I'm from Canada and am probably just not familiar with the slang used).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Eating disorder, Dysphoria, and Body shaming

Moderate: Fatphobia, Transphobia, and Homophobia

Minor: Sexual content

alisonannk's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria, Outing, Body shaming, Bullying, Eating disorder, Body horror, and Sexual content

Moderate: Homophobia, Medical content, Alcohol, Deadnaming, Fatphobia, Lesbophobia, Misogyny, Sexual harassment, and Transphobia

anniefwrites's review

emotional funny inspiring reflective fast-paced

Somehow Lewis Hancox made a childhood and adolescence full of gender-related trauma both funny and accessible. I think in particular, the addition of his current voice—a representation of a trans person who made it and got to the life he wanted—made the darker parts feel more hopeful. Like Fun Home meets Giant Days. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder and Fatphobia

Moderate: Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Medical content, Transphobia, Deadnaming, Alcohol, and Bullying

Minor: Sexual content, Outing, and Blood

Body dysmorphia

taleofabibliophile's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Dysphoria, Vomit, Outing, Bullying, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Medical trauma, Medical content, Homophobia, Deadnaming, Transphobia, and Lesbophobia

Moderate: Cursing and Sexual content

Minor: Sexual harassment and Violence

CW: transphobic language/slurs/Harry Potter mention (drawn on page)