Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe

213 reviews

theintrovertsbooks's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria

Moderate: Medical trauma, Sexual content, Blood, and Medical content

Minor: Cancer, Pregnancy, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Vomit, Transphobia, and Deadnaming

wad3mil3sgarru2's review

informative lighthearted reflective fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Dysphoria

Minor: Medical trauma, Outing, Blood, and Sexual content

buttercat42's review

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

nokreadingnook's review

informative reflective slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria and Blood

joscelynhe's review

emotional hopeful informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Blood, Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Dysphoria, and Sexual content

paulus_on_the_rocks's review

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

bratlingling's review

challenging emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced

4.25

Beautiful and reflective graphic novel about the author's coming out story and relationship with gender. I could relate a lot but also got many new perspectives and I love media that makes us more empathetic. Also beautiful art style. And loved the fandom-references, they were very relatable (unfortunately)

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Dysphoria and Blood

Minor: Vomit and Alcohol

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

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