Reviews tagging 'Torture'

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

6 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

zombiezami's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Medical trauma, Blood, Misogyny, Genocide, Sexism, Forced institutionalization, Violence, Death, Religious bigotry, Child death, Murder, Colonisation, Sexual content, Transphobia, Torture, Child abuse, Hate crime, Racism, Medical content, Deadnaming, and Police brutality

Moderate: Infidelity, Infertility, Slavery, Confinement, Dysphoria, and Kidnapping

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic, Animal death, Cursing, Lesbophobia, War, Biphobia, Adult/minor relationship, and Pedophilia

Eugenics, Intersexism, Incarceration

frog_appreciator's review

3.75

While jarring to see AGAB language used so often in a historical context, the author is extremely self aware which is important when talking about other cultures, even if it bordered on excessive at times (repeating themself in footnotes) I definitely learned a lot while reading so it was worthwhile. I’m excited to dive into other texts mentioned in the book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Racism, and Colonisation

Moderate: Torture and Sexual assault

bookmark3brodi's review

informative reflective sad fast-paced

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Cultural appropriation, Drug use, Dysphoria, Body horror, Homophobia, Hate crime, Medical trauma, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Transphobia, Classism, Gaslighting, Outing, Sexual harassment, and War

hyperbooktivity's review against another edition

dark hopeful informative medium-paced

5.0

Trans history is rich and long, we’ve always existed in some form of another. This book gives clear examples of people in history who did not perform and/or identify with the gender they were assigned at birth, and how well or poorly they were accepted by their society and outside societies.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Torture

Moderate: Ableism