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murve's review against another edition
3.75
Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Transphobia, and Sexual harassment
Moderate: Death of parent, Rape, Sexual content, and Terminal illness
Minor: Self harm, Addiction, and Racism
rockyroadbutch's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Rape, Emotional abuse, Sexual harassment, Stalking, Transphobia, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Self harm, Sexual assault, Hate crime, Lesbophobia, and Child abuse
Moderate: Bullying, Toxic relationship, Violence, Addiction, Cursing, Deadnaming, Dysphoria, Gaslighting, Trafficking, and Sexual content
julesadventurezone's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Medical content, Self harm, Sexual content, Bullying, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Religious bigotry, Violence, Vomit, Dysphoria, Hate crime, Alcohol, Blood, Body shaming, Deadnaming, Excrement, Sexual violence, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Child abuse, Drug use, and Mental illness
Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal death, Body shaming, Pedophilia, Bullying, Misogyny, and Sexism
Minor: Car accident, Lesbophobia, Murder, Gaslighting, Infidelity, Pregnancy, Classism, Torture, Xenophobia, Colonisation, Confinement, Toxic friendship, Cancer, Child death, Drug abuse, War, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis
redroseses's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Self harm, Sexual content, Sexism, Eating disorder, Blood, Stalking, Toxic relationship, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Religious bigotry, Homophobia, Transphobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Lesbophobia, Hate crime, Emotional abuse, Dysphoria, Drug use, Deadnaming, Cursing, Child abuse, and Bullying
Minor: Infidelity, Medical content, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexism, Toxic friendship, Deadnaming, Addiction, Pandemic/Epidemic, Alcohol, Blood, Death of parent, Adult/minor relationship, and Biphobia
heather_harrison's review against another edition
3.25
Graphic: Outing, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Deadnaming, Homophobia, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Rape, Lesbophobia, Transphobia, Eating disorder, and Bullying
Minor: Addiction, Alcohol, Dysphoria, Religious bigotry, Cursing, Sexual assault, Eating disorder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Bullying, and Toxic friendship
imstephtacular's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Sexual content, Stalking, Cursing, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Medical content, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Toxic relationship, Deadnaming, Gaslighting, and Transphobia
Moderate: Drug use, Sexual violence, Addiction, Alcohol, Child abuse, Excrement, Self harm, Sexual harassment, Death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Religious bigotry, and Violence
Minor: Vomit
melissa_h's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Grief, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Eating disorder, Dysphoria, Body shaming, Bullying, Religious bigotry, Medical content, Suicidal thoughts, and Transphobia
Moderate: Addiction, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship
jess_esa's review against another edition
4.5
I honestly didn’t know what to expect but since I love Elliot Page it was an instant purchase.
This memoir really dives into his childhood trauma and trauma around coming out, including all of his relationships and hookups along the way. He makes it clear he still has a lot of work to do unpacking everything he’s been through, and you can very much see he’s still on a journey.
I would say you need to be in the right frame of mind to read this because there are some really difficult topics addressed here including abuse, sexual assault and disordered eating. This is particularly apparent in the first half of the book.
I really enjoyed his tangents, I felt like a learnt a lot about Nova Scotia, the environment, roller derby, the city of Los Angeles…and more! It’s written like a friend telling you a story and I appreciated that.
I feel like some people might struggle with how disjointed it is, it really flits between time periods and topics with no real through line. But I honestly really enjoyed that and it kept me interested.
I personally wish there’d been a little bit more about the Umbrella Academy era. But he generally doesn’t linger much on his work outside of how incredibly uncomfortable it has been masking all these years and how suffocating the whole industry can be for queer people.
Overall, I highly recommend!
Graphic: Sexual assault, Transphobia, Dysphoria, Lesbophobia, and Panic attacks/disorders
Moderate: Violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Addiction
Minor: Emotional abuse