Reviews tagging 'Homophobia'

Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood and The Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi

33 reviews

jeremie's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective fast-paced

4.75

Adored every second of this.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Alcohol, Death, Gore, Infidelity, Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, Misogyny, Suicide attempt, Violence, and War

Minor: Homophobia

bronzeageholly's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

“Once again, I arrived at my usual conclusion: one must educate oneself.”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Death, Misogyny, Police brutality, Violence, War, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Suicide attempt and Drug use

Minor: Homophobia and Sexual content

nevermoregothic's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Misogyny, Torture, and War

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Suicide attempt, Xenophobia, Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Racism, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Homophobia, Child death, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Rape

paigehf's review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Death

Moderate: Homophobia, War, and Self harm

lilreddress's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Torture, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, and Violence

Moderate: Drug use, Sexism, Death, and Alcohol

Minor: Mental illness, Homophobia, Cancer, Bullying, Murder, Self harm, Blood, Body shaming, Drug abuse, Grief, Misogyny, Rape, and Suicide

sleepylit's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

One of my favorite books of all time. This was my second read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, Alcohol, Sexism, Religious bigotry, Misogyny, War, Violence, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, Police brutality, Colonisation, Death, and Homophobia

markwillnevercry's review against another edition

0.5

So, there is a bit to tell. I really did not like this book. You might think "Ah, so you did not like it, because it was bad", but it wasn't. Marjane Satrapi does a very good job of showing how she grew up and how stuff changed her. However, it felt a bit like listening to your friend go through absolute shit, without recognizing that you also have problems that you have to deal with. Marjane Satrapi just kept going, because she wanted to tell her story and it was uncomfortable to read, specifically the Vienna part. As a separate note, this book is just in general giving the vibe of "i do not care about the way you feel, because i will never reflect on this", so we got slutshaming and fatphobia. I kind of feel like I wasted my time with this book. 

Reading notes:

Momo sucks ass.

She just accused man of a crime he didn't commit? And what she accused him of is not even comparible of her wearing lipstick? And her and her boyfriend are so happy about it? They deserve each other. 

The scene with the pills in uni. Just like, girly, if you have something on your heart, maybe don't throw it at the first person you see?

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Fatphobia, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Misogyny, Stalking, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Cursing, Drug abuse, Bullying, Confinement, Rape, Suicide attempt, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Body horror, Murder, Pregnancy, Racism, Adult/minor relationship, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Colonisation, Death, Drug use, Excrement, Hate crime, Grief, Homophobia, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, Torture, Violence, War, and Xenophobia

I do not actually remember if there were examples of addiction, alcoholism and drug abuse, but I am not planning to reread the whole book to find them. It felt like they were there, but do not trust my word. Also, ableism is there for like a chapter, but it is bad.

illgiveyouahint's review

dark funny lighthearted sad fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Death, Misogyny, Islamophobia, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Drug use, War, Violence, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, and Sexism

Moderate: Genocide, Grief, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Homophobia, Racism, Sexual harassment, Alcohol, Body shaming, Infidelity, Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Xenophobia, and Toxic friendship

cbh's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

I have never read a book that so perfectly captures the feeling of freedom and all that one can gain and lose out of it. It is excellent! An easy page turner, and definitely a must-read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt and War

Moderate: Cursing

Minor: Homophobia, Racism, Torture, Child death, Death, Misogyny, and Religious bigotry

betweentheshelves's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

This is really such an accessible look at living in Iran during the war in the 1980s, which honestly not a lot of YA lit really covers. It's a realtively simple art style, but there are panels that really get the emotions across. Marjane feels a lot of things, and props to her parents for encouraging the freedom she desired. 

There are parts of this that are also hard to read, given the subject matter. It would make great required reading for a social studies class in high school. It will definitely make for good discussion tonight at our book club.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Drug use, Torture, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Homophobia and Rape