Reviews tagging 'Rape'

Strong Female Character by Fern Brady

21 reviews

kell_xavi's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny informative medium-paced

4.0

Memoir by multilingual Scottish comedian, working class autistic woman, fashion icon, and former stripper Fern Brady. Brady’s experience of autism, depression, and anxiety is very unlike my own—different class, culture, field, and gender context, as well as 2 decades and celebrity status separate us—yet a lot of it is familiar, and the added stories (descriptions, frustrations, examples) are appreciated. I hope all of us women and trans autistics can find ways to be comfortable and safe with ourselves. I hope books like these can help us to be seen.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Misogyny, Mental illness, Abandonment, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Violence, Homophobia, Fatphobia, Eating disorder, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Police brutality and Rape

misdiagnosis

amyford's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Gore, Self harm, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Bullying, Chronic illness, Cursing, Alcoholism, Rape, Eating disorder, Medical content, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, and Violence

lovelyoutliers's review

funny informative slow-paced

3.0

This memoir gives us a look into Fern’s life through the lens of late diagnosed autism. She showed how some of her early life struggles were shaped by neurodivergence and how it affects her life. 

It’s an important addition to the sparse literature focused on autistic females. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Mental illness, Sexual violence, Bullying, Child abuse, Drug use, Rape, Eating disorder, and Sexual content

tetrootz's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Chronic illness, Suicide, Religious bigotry, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Panic attacks/disorders, Misogyny, Drug abuse, Body shaming, Self harm, Grief, Sexual assault, Mental illness, Blood, Bullying, Confinement, Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, Excrement, Cursing, Toxic friendship, Infidelity, Fatphobia, Adult/minor relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Stalking, Sexual harassment, Rape, Eating disorder, Medical trauma, Forced institutionalization, Addiction, Homophobia, Gaslighting, Dysphoria, Drug use, Ableism, Classism, Violence, Toxic relationship, Sexual violence, Sexism, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Pedophilia, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Vomit, Physical abuse, and Medical content

Moderate: Police brutality and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Dementia

hanne_chummy's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Rape, Panic attacks/disorders, Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Alcoholism, Abandonment, Grief, Alcohol, Drug abuse, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Drug use, Eating disorder, Violence, Sexual violence, Self harm, Misogyny, Bullying, Toxic relationship, Addiction, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

billorwill's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Eating disorder, Self harm, and Violence

bearystarry's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative reflective fast-paced

4.75

I feel incredibly seen by this memoir. I’m… probably going to reread and annotate this almost immediately.

Just wish there was less fatphobia. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Violence, Emotional abuse, Body shaming, Suicidal thoughts, Misogyny, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Eating disorder, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, Sexism, Grief, Self harm, Drug use, Death, Cursing, Adult/minor relationship, Ableism, Abandonment, Toxic friendship, Infidelity, Bullying, and Alcohol

Moderate: Police brutality, Sexual violence, Fatphobia, and Vomit

Minor: Rape, Racism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

janienejulia's review

dark emotional funny informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Physical abuse, and Self harm

Moderate: Bullying and Child abuse

Minor: Sexual assault, Eating disorder, and Rape

jillysmith's review

challenging emotional funny sad medium-paced

3.75

Equal parts funny and heart wrenching, Fern Brady tells the story of her life leading up to her diagnosis with autism in her mid thirties. While she worries about being defined by her new diagnosis, she shows how damaging suppressing and ignoring her condition has been throughout her life. She pulls no punches, sketching out the characters in her life with an almost cruel factualness. You can easily imagine that this autobiography was painful for many of her friends and family to read. Her life in comedy is given short thrift, with later chapters becoming a little repetitive of the facts and events that seem to give her comfort, but it's a powerful piece of persuasion that women need diagnoses too to help them navigate a world not designed for them. The audio book is a little stilted at times, but a pleasure to listen to

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content, Death, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Medical trauma, and Violence

Minor: Self harm, Addiction, Suicidal thoughts, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Religious bigotry, Mental illness, Domestic abuse, Classism, and Adult/minor relationship

cbain21's review against another edition

challenging dark funny

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Rape, and Sexual assault