Reviews tagging 'Medical trauma'

Ten Steps to Nanette: A Memoir Situation by Hannah Gadsby

25 reviews

zombiezami's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Mental illness, Hate crime, Lesbophobia, Sexism, Violence, Homophobia, Transphobia, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Ableism, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Rape, Colonisation, Death, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Medical trauma, Racism, Pedophilia, Medical content, Religious bigotry, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Alcoholism, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Suicide, Alcohol, Terminal illness, Cancer, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Mass/school shootings

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monicaa_d's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad tense

4.5

A really informative look into the author's journey to creating a not-comedy show that challenged it's audience in myriad ways. The book expands on Hannah's life and the many barriers, both internally and externally, that she had to break through in order to complete Nannette, as well as the trauma and healing that the show brought her, and to an extent, her audience.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime

Moderate: Fatphobia, Pedophilia, Medical trauma, Lesbophobia, Sexual assault, and Rape

gumptionreads's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

I need to buy a physical copy and annotate so much, I’ve never felt so seen and represented, especially when Hannah discusses her neurodiversity.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Misogyny, Sexual harassment, Rape, and Medical trauma

kaitlinlovesbooks's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Misogyny, and Homophobia

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Rape, Injury/Injury detail, Fatphobia, Pedophilia, Medical trauma, and Sexual assault

Minor: Emotional abuse and Panic attacks/disorders

erebus53's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

This is a book I find it really hard to review. For starters If you don't know who Hannah Gadsby is, you probably ought to see the Netflix version of Nanette first. It provides a lot of context that you would probably gain insight from. I'm really grateful that this version of the book is narrated by the author. I think it would lose a lot of its oomph if someone else was narrating it for her.. it just wouldn't fit.

Nanette and the story of the creation thereof, is an exercise (exorcise) in trauma, in violence and exclusion meted out upon a Neurodivergent (in her case Autistic ADHD) lesbian woman from Tasmania (in Australia). There is profanity and no holds barred descriptions of medicalised womanhood, sexual assault, rape, bad dad jokes, and physical violence. The whole thing is designed to be in your face, because too may people just don't engage with the things that happen to you if you are underprivileged. 

As a result this book is full of jabs at cis-het-white-men.. but that is because it's less problematic to "punch up" than down. Gadsby is deliberately seeking to subvert the form of comedy, to parody the man-and-the-mic standup look, and to kick the audience in the gut with a bit of a wakeup call.

Yes of course I am biased. I'm also a vagina wielding Autistic f*** up. I know how it is.  Life doesn't ever really stop breaking you, but you do tend to learn survival skills along the way. I own my privilege.. there are plenty of things that I have going for me that mean that people take me seriously. I'm not brown, I spell conventionally.. I can define conventionally.. my parents were both together in their own home before my mother died and I inherited enough to buy my own mortgage (lucky me!) So yes, I am biased in my opinion of this book, but I like to think that it's because I am the target audience. I see my like, in Hannah Gadsby. She's about my age, also brought up in the Antipodes, and she wrote this book for the brethren and sistren who have also dealt with being othered for their sex, gender, presentation, sexual orientation, neurotype, sensitivities, and benign differences.

Bloody good book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Alcohol, Body shaming, Cursing, Excrement, Grief, Lesbophobia, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Sexism, Blood, Dysphoria, Ableism, Drug use, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Rape

burdasnest's review against another edition

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

5.0

I know this memoir details the ways in which Hannah Gadsby's brain has not been historically valued, but truly no other brain could have produced this funny, subversive, relatable, trauma-dumpster-fire of a work. I truly believe their unique way of thinking has gotten at intersectional issues that have yet to be recognized academically, all while just trying to take up their proper space in the world and reduce the burden of trauma for people to come.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Injury/Injury detail, Homophobia, Sexual violence, Misogyny, Medical trauma, Hate crime, Ableism, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual assault, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, and Lesbophobia

Moderate: Rape

Minor: Racism, Pedophilia, Genocide, Abortion, Addiction, and Police brutality

pantherguin's review against another edition

emotional funny informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

Great book, narrated by the author themselves. Thoroughly enjoyed. Highly recommend. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Rape, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual assault, Pedophilia, Alcohol, Body shaming, Colonisation, Gaslighting, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Outing, Sexism, Child abuse, Racism, Abortion, Dysphoria, Fatphobia, and Medical trauma

jnlundy's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Homophobia, Biphobia, Fatphobia, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Medical content, Medical trauma, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Bullying, Physical abuse, Rape, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Colonisation, and Death

sarahelem's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective medium-paced

5.0

What a bloody fantastic read. I loved Nanette and reading Gadsby's mémoir solidified my appreciation and love for this comedian and author (and human). The way she talks about misogyny in comedy, queer rights, and neurodiversity is poignant and provides essential content on these matters. A must read, in my opinion. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Cursing, Colonisation, Classism, Body shaming, Sexual harassment, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Misogyny, Lesbophobia, Sexism, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Gaslighting, Dysphoria, Homophobia, and Violence

Minor: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Drug use, Cancer, Excrement, Outing, Abortion, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Pedophilia, Body shaming, Emotional abuse, and Medical trauma

mx_manda's review against another edition

reflective slow-paced

5.0

I am so glad I chose to listen to the Audible of this book, because hearing it in Hannah's voice gave me the context clues I needed to interpret her story—I really struggle to understand inflection and tone, so I always go for the option of listening to the author when given it. It took me some time to get through, because the first couple chapters are just so long, and took a lot of time for me to process. Hannah's a few years older than I am, and I found her story very relatable—minus her more violent traumas—even growing up in small town America around the same time. I felt Seen listening to this one, and I appreciated the small doses of humor that break up the heaviness. 

If you can, I think the audio is the way to go with this one. You'll be glad you did.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Colonisation, Fatphobia, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Outing, Suicidal thoughts, Body shaming, Cancer, Homophobia, and Ableism

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Abortion, Rape, and Pedophilia