Reviews tagging 'Excrement'

Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe

21 reviews

rickireadss's review against another edition

5.0

this is my second memoir, and i am officially convinced i need to read more!! i loved every second of this and am so happy i read this one. while i cannot connect to the feeling's maia experienced in eir adolescence and young adulthood, i found it very informative! 100% recommend this one, especially if you are nonbinary and/or asexual and want to connect to someone who struggled with eir gender identity and sexuality growing up!!

⚠️: dysphoria, medical trauma, blood, medical content, transphobia, homophobia, deadnaming, vomit, excrement, acephobia/arophobia 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria, Medical trauma, and Medical content

Moderate: Acephobia/Arophobia, Deadnaming, Transphobia, and Homophobia

Minor: Blood, Excrement, and Vomit

rustmaiden's review

informative reflective fast-paced

4.0

when i first heard about this book i wasn't immediately interested, but given all of the controversy in the book world with bans and challenges i felt like i needed to read it just to see what all the fuss was about. this book deepened my understanding of pronoun choice, especially those that seem 'outside the norm' (i.e. she, he, they). if anything, reading the book has moved me from a position of neutrality on the title to one of strong support. this is an important work to have available for those who need the ability to see themselves in a piece of work and for those who are seeking to better understand the inner lives of others. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Excrement, Blood, and Vomit

grayreadsmanga's review

informative reflective slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria

Moderate: Biphobia, Transphobia, Blood, and Sexual content

Minor: Excrement and Outing

demo's review

emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Dysphoria, and Transphobia

Moderate: Medical trauma, Blood, and Acephobia/Arophobia

Minor: Excrement

toofondofbooks_'s review

emotional informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

This is a memoir of Maia Kobabe coming into eir own and figuring out that gender is not as straightforward as many people would like us to believe. The book is brutally honest and beautifully illustrated. I really enjoyed it and learned a lot of things that I wasn't privy to before reading. 

Supporting Maia and eir work is really important to me, because over the past week, this book was in the news, and not for reasons that I would want it to be. Republicans in Virginia decided to sue em, claiming that some "obscenity laws" have been broken. To find anything obscene about this book is to be completely ignorant, lacking in context or nuance, and to not understand that this is a BOOK FOR ADULTS. There are sensitive images within the book, but they aid in the storytelling which is the entire point of graphic novels. 

I talk about this because I'd like to shine light on this current issue and also I think books that are banned and challenged ESPECIALLY for bigot-ass-reasons should be read and reviewed even *harder.* 

This book is currently on Kindle Unlimited if you have it - if you are interested, give it a read, give it a review, and give it more exposure to its intended audience. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Sexual content, Transphobia, and Homophobia

Moderate: Cancer

Minor: Excrement and Misogyny

there is a "character" (a real person bc it's a memoir but i feel weird just saying 'a person' ) in this book who says some terfy things to Maia and I think that should be noted.

kkenna7's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria, Blood, and Sexual content

Moderate: Alcohol

Minor: Medical trauma, Excrement, Vomit, and Body shaming

purplepenning's review

emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

This was exceptional — exceptionally personal and kind and gently paced and honest. A great example of how a graphic memoir can tell a complex story (and aren't all of our truest  stories complex) in a beautifully accessible way.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Medical content, Medical trauma, Dysphoria, Excrement, Blood, Vomit, Acephobia/Arophobia, Biphobia, Transphobia, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Sexual content and Alcohol

emfass's review

emotional informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Alcoholism, Alcohol, Vomit, and Excrement

spaghettireads's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Medical content

Minor: Excrement

marissasa's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

Genderqueer was an emotional and touching narrative about the author's journey in gender and identity, and I felt the raw feelings in each colored panel and its accompanying words. A lovely read on what it means to grow up not feeling like either a girl or a boy and why that is completely okay, and it made my heart swell to see how e grew and became comfortable in eir identity throughout eir life in this comic.

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Content Warnings

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