Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe

34 reviews

creatingavery's review

hopeful informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Deadnaming, Pregnancy, Body horror, Body shaming, Dysphoria, Transphobia, and Misogyny

bodegaparrot's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Vomit, and Body horror

bookedbymadeline's review

fast-paced

4.0

This is such an important book for people to read to see non-binary and asexual rep! I learned quite a bit and felt I understood asexuality and NBs better. I enjoyed the art style but felt the story jumped all over the place which led to some whiplash. I also didn’t love the numerous Harry Potter references-I understand that the series was an important part of eir’s childhood and Led to a love of reading but it felt excessive. E also talked about a ship between Sam and Dean (which is incest btw?!) which felt icky. Overall I’d recommend it and I love that e can hopefully give words and understanding to other kids out there that may struggle with gender identity! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria, Acephobia/Arophobia, Body horror, Sexual content, 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

maggieparedesauthor's review

challenging emotional funny informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

This book was such a good reflection on figuring yourself out.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Lesbophobia, Outing, Pregnancy, Sexism, Body horror, Bullying, Misogyny, and Body shaming

hmetwade's review

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Body horror, Blood, Transphobia, and Dysphoria

rockythefreak's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective tense slow-paced

5.0

I fell in love with the work. It made me feel like I got a deeper understanding of things my partner talks about, being nonbinary and asexual, using words that I feel like she struggles to find at times. It helped me find some words for my own feelings and experiences too. I am so grateful to this work and it's author.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Sexism, Medical content, Sexual content, Transphobia, Vomit, Blood, Body horror, Dysphoria, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Acephobia/Arophobia and Bullying

Minor: Incest

Very brief child nudity (not sexualized). Children are depicted urinating outside. Brief but graphic images of urine and vomit and feces. As for incest, it is discussed vaguely. It is only noticable if you're familiar with the pop culture reference where the incest takes place. Details:

The incest concerns a fictional "ship" between Sam and Dean Winchester from the show Supernatural.

Pap smears are discussed

as traumatic and extremely painful, and the pain is both physical and emotional, so it's amplified.

Blood, Injury, and body horror is used at times for metaphorical effect.

roaming_enn's review

fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Body horror

knockoffrainbow's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

Amazing telling of the author’s experience, thoughts, feelings, and learnings. I learned much from eir perspective. Highly recommend reading, especially for younger people who are working to discover and understand their own identities. 

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Content Warnings

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

lunarreads's review

dark emotional inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Body horror, and Dysphoria

Moderate: Transphobia

there's explicit body horror in these novel such as the writer being stabbed etc, as well as medica trauma related to getting a pap smear