Reviews tagging 'Medical trauma'

Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue by Leslie Feinberg

5 reviews

q_bert13's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring fast-paced

5.0

A great collection of speeches and reflective writings from les feinberg and other collaborators. A great book for reference. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Antisemitism, Cursing, Hate crime, Biphobia, Classism, Medical trauma, Sexism, Racism, Homophobia, Rape, Transphobia, War, Ableism, Police brutality, and Violence

honeyvoiced's review

challenging informative

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Transphobia, and Homophobia

Moderate: Police brutality

gayelfboi's review

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Transphobia, Ableism, Classism, Hate crime, Lesbophobia, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Sexual assault, Dysphoria, Death, Outing, Police brutality, Rape, and Violence

pastelkerstin's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative inspiring fast-paced

4.0

Dated in some ways (terminology, most obliviously) but still very relevant today. The calls for intersectionality and passages of how class struggle is linked to other forms of oppression, including transphobia, are very powerful. I might read more of Feinberg's work. Ze has a way of making me think that a better world is possible.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Transphobia, Racism, Colonisation, Police brutality, Xenophobia, Classism, Hate crime, Lesbophobia, Homophobia, Biphobia, Sexism, and Misogyny

Moderate: Antisemitism, War, Slavery, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Rape, Death, Confinement, Murder, Violence, Bullying, and Dysphoria

Minor: Ableism and Alcohol

moonyreadsbystarlight's review

emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

Trans Liberation by Leslie Feinberg highlights trans beauty, trans joy, trans struggle, trans resilience, and solidarity. It was so empowering to read, as a non-binary person. It was comforting and empowering to hear hir talk about solidarity in a way that was so much more comprehensive than I would have expected even from the late 1990’s. Ze discuss the importance of solidarity on issues of gender, sexuality, race, disability, and class. Ze also has several trans people of color featured in some of the portraits throughout the book.

Of course the language around gender is different from what we use today and that was an experience all on its own. The beautiful chaos of melding masculine and feminine and neutral terms, older and newer (for the time) is incredible. There is so much history and character in all of those labels. This was just the beginning of the legacy that is continued by more discussion of experiences that we get online. There is so much joy and power in the diversity of language that is constantly being created.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Medical trauma, and Homophobia

Moderate: Police brutality