Reviews tagging 'Blood'

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

2 reviews

meganpbell's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

This funny, honest, self-compassionate, perfectly cringy, loving, empowering graphic memoir of growing up trans in suburban England in the 90s and early 00s is just such a gift. I loved how Lewis, as an all-grown-up transman, self-inserts, visits, accepts, and tries to help his younger self, Lois, and all the humor and honesty with which he depicts his teen years and his transition. So grateful this book exists!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria and Eating disorder

Moderate: Lesbophobia, Sexual content, Homophobia, Vomit, Transphobia, Deadnaming, Medical content, Mental illness, Alcohol, and Body shaming

Minor: Blood

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