Reviews tagging 'Cancer'

Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe

19 reviews

maxandrambo's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma and Dysphoria

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Cancer

hawksrye's review

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Excrement, Medical content, Medical trauma, Lesbophobia, and Dysphoria

Minor: Alcoholism, Cancer, Homophobia, Incest, Misogyny, Transphobia, Blood, Vomit, Acephobia/Arophobia, and Alcohol

marveledspectre's review

emotional funny hopeful informative lighthearted fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Dysphoria

Moderate: Homophobia, Blood, and Vomit

Minor: Cancer and Acephobia/Arophobia

galacticvex's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring fast-paced

3.75

big note off the top: I appreciate the writing style of this memoir, and that the audiobook was narrated by the author! it's always a treat when an author reads their own work.

I struggled with some of the terminology (specifically around

kink

) and concepts (specifically around topics like fanfiction). mostly due to it being substantially more graphic than I was anticipating, especially when it came to

sexual exploration as a youth and adult

and descriptions of

medical experiences

. all in all I think I would have benefitted from content warnings, or otherwise some more heads up in chapter names.

all that said I found myself often resonating the experiences explored, and generally appreciated learning more about the ones I didn't have first hand knowledge of. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Transphobia, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Dysphoria

Moderate: Biphobia, Bullying, Misogyny, Sexism, Acephobia/Arophobia, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Cancer and Toxic relationship

justcallmeemily's review

funny informative lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Transphobia, Blood, Vomit, and Dysphoria

Minor: Cancer, Medical trauma, and Acephobia/Arophobia

felicityebhaslin's review

informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Transphobia, Medical content, and Acephobia/Arophobia

Minor: Cancer, Chronic illness, Deadnaming, Transphobia, Excrement, and Vomit

antijeffbozo_love2read's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective relaxing fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Blood, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Deadnaming, Drug use, Gore, Misogyny, Transphobia, Excrement, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Cancer, Chronic illness, Vomit, and Pregnancy

Injury/gore is metaphorical and features a character impaled on a spike in a couple of different instances. It metaphorically represents emotional/physical pain and features some amount of blood, nothing else. Blood warning mainly applies to menstrual blood.

theintrovertsbooks's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria

Moderate: Sexual content, Blood, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Minor: Alcoholism, Cancer, Deadnaming, Misogyny, Transphobia, Vomit, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

annaofjesup's review against another edition

reflective medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cancer, Chronic illness, Transphobia, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

kirstenf's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria

Moderate: Body horror, Sexual content, Blood, and Medical trauma

Minor: Cancer, Misogyny, Sexism, Transphobia, Vomit, and Outing