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haylee_reads's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
I don’t rate nonfiction, but I really enjoyed this!
This was a wonderful, quick read about Chella’s experience as a Trans, Queer, Chinese, Jewish, and Deaf person. I love this Pocket Change Collective series because the stories I’ve read so far have been incredible. Chella was incredible vulnerable. The discussions on intersectional identities was so easy to follow and understand.
This was a wonderful, quick read about Chella’s experience as a Trans, Queer, Chinese, Jewish, and Deaf person. I love this Pocket Change Collective series because the stories I’ve read so far have been incredible. Chella was incredible vulnerable. The discussions on intersectional identities was so easy to follow and understand.
xsleepyshadows's review
4.0
An amazing coming of age read about a person with so many identities and learning to accept and explore themselves. I really appreciate the hopeful tone and self-acceptance in this short book.
It's also available on audiobook!
It's also available on audiobook!
adeepermystery's review
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fast-paced
5.0
A fast, rich, hopeful read.
jennysfavoritebooks's review against another edition
5.0
I have a goal to read at least one nonfiction book a month. I loved reading my first Pocket Change Collecting book last year with Alok Vaid-Menon’s Beyond the Gender Binary. This entry into the collective focused on Chella, a deaf, genderqueer, Jewish POC. This story explains his childhood, and provides some understanding for his life and ideas for his future. It was hard to listen to the forms of discrimination Chella faced as a child, but he is such a captivating human who has a knack for telling a good story. I can’t wait to see more of their work.
bri_of_the_shire's review against another edition
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2.0
It was fine, but difficult to get through as someone who's just past this point in their life. There's a level of naivite and immaturity presented in this book that felt in part, self-pitying and self-absorbed. Chella is, I am assured, a great individual, but he writes in a way that shows he's simply existing as an ego, and considers his own life thus far to be representation for others, rather than a lived experience of a person in their youth.