Reviews tagging 'Body shaming'

Pageboy by Elliot Page

114 reviews

cghegan's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad slow-paced

3.25

In this incredibly thoughtful and well-written memoir, Elliot Page deliberately meditates and threads together a narrative of pain and the most intense self-discovery. It was a good memoir, a beautifully crafted book, but extremely difficult to read. Page has rendered his agony and self-loathing so well that it’s difficult to sit with and parse with him as he cycles through nonchronological threads, looping over and over through small moments in time to piece together meaning. It is well crafted, a quilt in twenty nine shades of blues, but it is wave after wave of agony and sadness, and moments that linger on joy or relief or self discovery have less focus and the same breath of life that Page can write into his moments of darkness and loss. All this to say: I’m beyond grateful this narrative exists. It is going to save someone’s life. But I advise exercising care when reading.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Mental illness, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Blood, Stalking, and Outing

Minor: Bullying

tiudragonfly's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Stalking, Lesbophobia, Outing, and Gaslighting

erica_reads_things's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.75

A beautifully written account of Page's intensely personal story and path to living as his true self. It took me a little while to get into his writing style, but once it was familiar to me I could not get enough of this book. Highly recommend listening, as Page narrates it himself and I always love to hear memoirs from the person's own voice. So well done. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Homophobia, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Transphobia, Violence, Lesbophobia, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Biphobia, Body shaming, Eating disorder, and Misogyny

amelianotthepilot's review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective sad tense

3.5

elliot page’s life experiences from growing up queer in the film industry and coming out to realizing he’s trans.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Body shaming, Deadnaming, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Blood, Outing, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

eleasereads's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Deadnaming, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Stalking, Lesbophobia, Outing, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

thisiscourt's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective tense fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Panic attacks/disorders, and Dysphoria

Moderate: Body shaming, Deadnaming, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Medical content, Stalking, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic

_jennaalbright_'s review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Child abuse, Deadnaming, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Abandonment, and Alcohol

michelle_my_belle's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Stalking, Lesbophobia, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

julesadventurezone's review against another edition

challenging emotional medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Deadnaming, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Rape, Self harm, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Alcohol, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Misogyny, Pedophilia, and Sexism

Minor: Cancer, Child death, Confinement, Drug abuse, Infidelity, Torture, Xenophobia, Car accident, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Colonisation, War, and Classism

sawyer_koh's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Deadnaming, Drug use, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Transphobia, Vomit, Religious bigotry, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, Dysphoria, and Pandemic/Epidemic