Reviews tagging 'Body shaming'

Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe

28 reviews

antijeffbozo_love2read's review

emotional funny reflective relaxing fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Blood, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Gore, Alcoholism, Misogyny, Medical content, Excrement, Transphobia, Drug use, Toxic friendship, Deadnaming, Body shaming, and Medical trauma

Minor: Chronic illness, Pregnancy, Vomit, and Cancer

Injury/gore is metaphorical and features a character impaled on a spike in a couple of different instances. It metaphorically represents emotional/physical pain and features some amount of blood, nothing else. Blood warning mainly applies to menstrual blood.

natraf_reads's review

emotional informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

Kobabe writes a beautiful reflection of eir experiences growing up and dealing with the struggles of self identity. E shares eir experiences of body image, sexuality, and relationships with others in becoming more authentically em. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Dysphoria, Homophobia, and Body shaming

theskyboi's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Dysphoria, Homophobia, Medical content, Acephobia/Arophobia, Body shaming, Blood, Bullying, Lesbophobia, Sexual content, Medical trauma, and Toxic friendship

brea's review

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deadnaming

Moderate: Body shaming and Homophobia

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

savvylit's review

emotional informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

Gender Queer is a beautifully illustrated and elucidating memoir about one person's journey. From Kobabe, I feel like I learned so much about dysphoria, self-discovery, preferred pronouns, asexuality, and gender. Though this memoir focuses solely on Kobabe's specific journey, eir story is very captivating and illustrative (literally and figuratively).

Recently, Liz @thiefofmemory posted an incredible review of this memoir that does it much better justice than I could. Please check out her review here (https://www.instagram.com/p/C22mpOGrQXf) to get an even better idea of why Gender Queer is a powerful and worthwhile read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Dysphoria, Gaslighting, and Body shaming

annaofjesup's review against another edition

reflective medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Body shaming, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Bullying, Dysphoria, and Medical content

Minor: Alcohol, Cancer, Chronic illness, Pregnancy, and Transphobia

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

pacifickat's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

I particularly admired how this story navigates conversations around consent, and considering the needs of another in a relationship the way you would want to be considered. This might mean walking away from a potential relationship because you know what the other person wants is not what you can or want to give at the time. It also means walking away when you feel uncomfortable rather than feeling obligated to engage in an interaction at your own expense. It's ok to ask for what you want and voice how you would like to be treated. Maia seems like a gentle soul, and I admired eir courage and kindness in relational and social situations in this story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deadnaming, Medical content, Outing, Medical trauma, Sexual content, and Dysphoria

Moderate: Homophobia, Transphobia, and Body shaming

Minor: Alcohol and Alcoholism

ninahuynh's review against another edition

emotional inspiring tense medium-paced

5.0

 A memoir to read! As someone who does not had body dysmorphia due to gender dysmorphia, this memoir really open my mind to another experience. I like the choice of it being a graphic novel, as it really illustrates the struggles Maia experienced. I also like the drafts at the end of the book. I enjoy seeing the process and how the art came to be. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Blood, Medical trauma, Sexual content, Body shaming, and Transphobia