Reviews tagging 'Medical trauma'

Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe

224 reviews

buttercat42's review against another edition

fast-paced

2.0

Kobabe mentions a few times in the book that e was historically reluctant to share details of eir life and sadly, I think it shows. This would have felt more meaningful as a memoir if there was focus on the deeper meaning of a few important scenarios rather than just a general overview of eir entire life from birth to publishing. 

The more I reflect on this book, the less I like it. While I don’t agree with book bans of any kind, as a queer person I don’t think it provides a particularly helpful or useful lens through which to examine sexuality and gender or the way they operate in society. I wouldn’t give it to a teen to read not because I think it’s inappropriate but because I don’t think it has anything substantial to say about queer identity.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Dysphoria, and Medical trauma

gcrkl's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Dysphoria, Acephobia/Arophobia, Medical trauma, and Blood

paulus_on_the_rocks's review against another edition

reflective fast-paced

1.5

Oh, surprise, une autobiographie de plus réalisée par une personne appartenant à l’alphabet mafia qui ne s’inscrit absolument pas dans une perspective intersectionnelle ! Quel plaisir !

Pour ne pas finir fâché, j’ai trouvé que la représentation la plus intéressante (car peu fréquente) était le rapport extrêmement compliqué du MC vis-à-vis de ses rdv « obligatoires » chez lae gynéco. Mais là encore on reste en surface.

Est-ce que je le conseille ? Pour un.e ado, peut-être. Sinon pitié non. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Medical trauma, and Vomit

kvokolek's review against another edition

informative reflective fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Medical trauma and Transphobia

sapphic_alpaca's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Body horror, Medical trauma, Dysphoria, Sexual content, and Blood

Moderate: Excrement, Vomit, Deadnaming, and Misogyny

dominic_t's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

The art in this book was really nice. The memoir was engaging, and I really relate to some of Maia's gender feelings.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma and Blood

Moderate: Transphobia

Minor: Sexual content

kathleenivy's review against another edition

hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Dysphoria and Medical trauma

Minor: Sexual content, Homophobia, and Lesbophobia

zackarinareads's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative fast-paced

4.75

This is so cool and I feel seen in so many parts.

I'm glad I got to read it as research for my term paper on book bans in the US.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria

Moderate: Medical trauma and Blood

Minor: Transphobia

pandabearshape's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Blood, Dysphoria, and Medical content

Moderate: Transphobia, Sexism, and Sexual content

thesesusspace's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

This book hit too close to home in a good way, as someone who identifies as a trans-masc non-binary person it was nice to read some of the same experiences I had/have (especially with coming out and correcting people on pronouns), it's a nice reminder that I'm not totally alone in having these experiences. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria

Moderate: Transphobia and Blood

Minor: Vomit, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Sexual content