Reviews tagging 'Dysphoria'

The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives by Dashka Slater

7 reviews

greywolfheir's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deadnaming, Hate crime, Homophobia, Gun violence, Racism, Transphobia, Dysphoria, Medical content, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Suicide and Death

the_embodiment_of_chaos's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Racism, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Deadnaming and Death

Minor: Homophobia, Suicide, Sexual assault, Murder, Hate crime, Dysphoria, and Bullying

fred_nom_nom's review against another edition

challenging emotional tense medium-paced

3.25

I don't recommend this book as a first or only source of information on the topic, because you can tell that the person who wrote it isn't directly effected by the things they're writing about e.g misgendering, using deadnames and using words and discriptions which aren't fitting or even hurtful 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury and Hate crime

Moderate: Suicide, Grief, Racial slurs, Deadnaming, Forced institutionalization, Homophobia, Transphobia, Death, Dysphoria, Gun violence, and Suicide attempt

max_vampire's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Deadnaming, Fire/Fire injury, Homophobia, and Hate crime

Moderate: Dysphoria

sssssoup's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deadnaming, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, Sexism, and Transphobia

Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Grief, Medical content, and Murder

Minor: Blood, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Dysphoria, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Sexual harassment, and Suicide

skullotonin's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Hate crime, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Racial slurs, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, and Violence

Moderate: Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Confinement, Cursing, Deadnaming, Death, Drug use, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Police brutality, Sexual harassment, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Alcohol, Death of parent, Death, Murder, and Self harm

freg's review

challenging inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Deadnaming, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Dysphoria, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Hate crime, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Racial slurs, Racism, Suicide, and Suicide attempt