Reviews tagging 'Transphobia'

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

28 reviews

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

noomzoom's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Transphobia, Homophobia, and Sexual assault

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

lindsdavis's review

challenging emotional informative slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Transphobia, and Violence

aweekinthelife's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

i learned a lot from this book about trans, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming history from around the world. i think the author does a good job of acknowledging their position in the world as a white nonbinary person and being careful to represent other people's stories respectfully. 

it was engaging on audio, although this may be why i don't remember the epilogue part that some other reviewers are hesitant about. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia

ashstrausser's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Medical trauma, Transphobia, Homophobia, and Cultural appropriation

lbelow's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

5.0

This is the kind of book that for years I have been looking for. It looks at the past with an openness that reflects the breadth of the trans experience. Rather than pointing to a list of people who meet certain criteria, the author expounds on the trends and situations of the past and the multi-layered reasons for acting in gender-nonconforming ways—from the economic and social/political in Western/European history to reasons intrinsically tied with sexuality, (non-white) culture, and spirituality. I may not have finished this book with a laundry list of definitely trans figures, but I'm left with a buoying feeling that people like me have always existed. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia

Minor: Medical trauma, Genocide, Lesbophobia, Dysphoria, Ableism, Racism, and Homophobia

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

lettuce_read's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Transphobia, and Homophobia

Moderate: Hate crime and Ableism