Reviews tagging 'Rape'

Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender by Kit Heyam

3 reviews

angelfireeast24's review

dark informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, Sexual violence, Violence, Bullying, Colonisation, Misogyny, Religious bigotry, Cultural appropriation, Deadnaming, Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Classism, Excrement, Homophobia, Murder, Outing, Rape, Ableism, Hate crime, Police brutality, Torture, and Transphobia

the_reading_wren's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Fascinating, challenging and most of all comforting. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Transphobia, Colonisation, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Sexual content, Biphobia, Sexism, Outing, and Misogyny

Moderate: Cultural appropriation, Medical content, Genocide, Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Classism, Deadnaming, Dysphoria, Forced institutionalization, Slavery, War, Medical trauma, Racism, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Religious bigotry, Torture, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Emotional abuse, and Mental illness

arrr's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

Thoughtful as historiography, interesting as trans and gender expansive history. Solid attempt at decolonial history accounting. Read the trigger warnings, it gets difficult at times. But the book is mostly affirming. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Rape, and War

Moderate: Sexual assault