Reviews tagging 'Outing'

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

20 reviews

gefthetalkingmongoose's review

emotional funny hopeful reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria, Transphobia, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Bullying and Deadnaming

Minor: Outing

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

quinniantheduck's review

emotional informative inspiring fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Eating disorder, Dysphoria, and Deadnaming

Moderate: Bullying

Minor: Outing

joisaddler's review

emotional funny hopeful fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Dysphoria, Mental illness, Outing, Homophobia, and Deadnaming

averyprettyboy's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deadnaming and Dysphoria

Moderate: Eating disorder, Transphobia, and Gaslighting

Minor: Sexual content, Outing, and Alcohol

bookiecharm's review

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Eating disorder, Sexual content, Transphobia, Injury/Injury detail, Outing, Deadnaming, Dysphoria, and Homophobia

amabel_xo's review

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Cursing, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Body shaming, Bullying, Deadnaming, Transphobia, Alcohol, and Outing

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

betweentheshelves's review

emotional funny hopeful fast-paced

3.0

This is a straightforward, engaging graphic novel memoir about Lewis's discovery of his trans identity and his eventual transition from female to male. There are so many teens who will find themselves in this story and I'm happy that it's a book that exists. Those teens need the chance to see themselves in graphic novels, too!

The overall format and tone wasn't quite what I was expecting for this, but it works for the intended audience. The general tone is, for the most part, light and entertaining, despite the fact that it's dealier with heavier issues like bullying, homophobia, eating disorders, and transphobia. It's a good conversation starter, and I'm glad for the ways that it will make teens feel seen.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria, Eating disorder, and Transphobia

Moderate: Deadnaming, Homophobia, and Bullying

Minor: Outing, Sexual harassment, and Violence

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

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