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poenaestante's review against another edition
5.0
Minor: Death of parent and Medical content
millie_blue's review against another edition
3.75
Moderate: Sexual content
Minor: Abortion, Body shaming, Medical content, and Cancer
lottiegasp's review against another edition
4.75
I thought it had really interesting perspectives about being queer, feminist and shunning societal norms while cherishing love and family. Rightfully so, a lot of feminism focusses on empowering women and genderqueer people to be single and child-free, to not be stuck in unfulfilling and unequal relationships, and to find and cherish love elsewhere. But for people who do seek and find love through their romantic partner and children, I think it is important to consider how to do these things in a way that does not simply reinforce the hetero status quo. This is something Nelson grapples with, while portraying how she and Harry have approached things.
At some parts in the middle I found the writing and references to other scholars a bit dense. Nevertheless, I overall appreciated the rich, aesthetic literary writing style, which is perhaps more common in fiction than memoirs.
Graphic: Pregnancy, Medical content, and Sexual content
Minor: Transphobia and Deadnaming
There are explicit descriptions of consensual sex. And detailed description of pregnancy and labour. There are some brief descriptions of transphobia, but the book focusses much more on trans joy. The author deadnames her partner once, presumably with his permission. There is a gutwrenching description of a parent dying, which is beautifully written but very sad.steveatwaywords's review against another edition
5.0
This book is not easily navigable. While written in fragmentary pieces, the narrative is delivered in its entirety, a submersion of its whole, and one wonders at its turnings. Nelson writes while on a subway, at a cafe, surrounded by tumult, but what she offers is insular and contained, a cerebral dissection of her own life and how words, language, people shift. Derrida remarked that he wondered most about the sex lives of philosophers. Nelson has here made a powerful bridge (more a marriage) between the abstraction of teleology and the workings of body.
Graphic: Sexual content and Death of parent
Moderate: Stalking, Grief, Medical content, and Cancer
Minor: Biphobia, Transphobia, and Murder
maess's review against another edition
4.75
Moderate: Alcohol, Cancer, Grief, Homophobia, Sexism, Stalking, Death, Drug use, Misogyny, Death of parent, Medical content, Sexual content, Abortion, Terminal illness, Addiction, Drug abuse, Infidelity, Lesbophobia, Transphobia, Vomit, Outing, Physical abuse, and Pregnancy
softanimal's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Death of parent, Medical content, and Sexual content
garynoplastie's review against another edition
3.75
Graphic: Cancer, Death of parent, and Pregnancy
Moderate: Stalking, Transphobia, Medical content, Grief, Deadnaming, and Infertility
Minor: Alcoholism
suspicious_salmon's review against another edition
3.25
Graphic: Death of parent and Pregnancy
Moderate: Dysphoria, Medical content, Sexual content, Lesbophobia, Transphobia, and Infertility
Minor: Alcoholism, Cultural appropriation, Excrement, Grief, Deadnaming, Addiction, Miscarriage, Stalking, and Terminal illness
dylan2219's review against another edition
4.0
Two things I took away particularly:
Graphic: Sexual content, Pregnancy, and Death of parent
Moderate: Grief, Dysphoria, Medical content, and Religious bigotry
Minor: Incest and Alcoholism
skippyfitzroy's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Infertility, Medical content, and Pregnancy
Moderate: Transphobia, Homophobia, and Stalking