Reviews tagging 'Sexual violence'

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

7 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

joensign's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Transphobia, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Colonisation, Racism, and Xenophobia

sophieprime's review

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Sexual violence, Racism, Medical trauma, and Xenophobia

uriah's review against another edition

5.0

I felt so grounded and at home in my transness when reading this.

Comfort, desperation, love: this is the emotional register in which I, too, experience trans and queer history. Like Shapland, I came to identification with the queer past before I came to full articulation of my queer present: I knew that I felt deep hurt and anger about past injustices against queer men, and deep emotional identification with them, long before I realised that was one aspect of my trans experience.... But it's through such indecorous emotion that history has provided me with some of the most intensely important experiences of my life.

Heyam reifies the watered down arguments I have in my head when I am met with the transphobic rhetoric of transness being a 'new fad'. My copy is tagged, dogearred, and annotated to the brim. I treasure this reading experience and I thank you, Dr. Heyam, for giving us hope in the form of history.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Sexual violence, Colonisation, and Racism

valkyri_anna's review

informative reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Colonisation, Violence, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Sexual assault

kat_ml's review

informative reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Transphobia, Sexual violence, and Sexual assault

arsenic_'s review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Outing, Violence, Sexual violence, Religious bigotry, Colonisation, Transphobia, and Homophobia