Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

Género Queer: una autobiografía by Maia Kobabe

121 reviews

laverna's review against another edition

hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Dysphoria

Minor: Medical trauma and Medical content

rockythefreak's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective tense slow-paced

5.0

I fell in love with the work. It made me feel like I got a deeper understanding of things my partner talks about, being nonbinary and asexual, using words that I feel like she struggles to find at times. It helped me find some words for my own feelings and experiences too. I am so grateful to this work and it's author.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Sexism, Medical content, Sexual content, Transphobia, Vomit, Blood, Body horror, Dysphoria, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Acephobia/Arophobia and Bullying

Minor: Incest

Very brief child nudity (not sexualized). Children are depicted urinating outside. Brief but graphic images of urine and vomit and feces. As for incest, it is discussed vaguely. It is only noticable if you're familiar with the pop culture reference where the incest takes place. Details:

The incest concerns a fictional "ship" between Sam and Dean Winchester from the show Supernatural.

Pap smears are discussed

as traumatic and extremely painful, and the pain is both physical and emotional, so it's amplified.

Blood, Injury, and body horror is used at times for metaphorical effect.

kenzielireads's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma and Medical content

mscalls's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content and Medical trauma

cymbal_curtain's review against another edition

emotional funny tense medium-paced

3.0

This book was ok. This is a book about growing up queer mostly. about question gender and sexuality and about hanging out with friends and partners.


1) this book presents "brain sexes" as a scientific truth. This is instead a very controversial topic, without scientific consensus. read the linked for more info (it backs up my claim and is a scientific journal)

https://bsd.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13293-022-00448-w

2) it, if not misinforms, at least confuses, the reader about what "asexual" means. Although the word has some multiple meanings, it primarily means not experiencing attraction, not "not masturbating". And it's fine to me if the author identifies/identified to some extent with the label, but because this is a book I'm a bit disappointed about this.

cws:
 I can't list this in the storygraph system as a content warning, but the book does contain romance.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria

Moderate: Sexual content and Medical content

Minor: Deadnaming and Outing

dannothedino's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Dysphoria, Medical trauma, Body shaming, Medical content, and Sexual content

Moderate: Blood, Bullying, Panic attacks/disorders, and Transphobia

Minor: Acephobia/Arophobia

knockoffrainbow's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

Amazing telling of the author’s experience, thoughts, feelings, and learnings. I learned much from eir perspective. Highly recommend reading, especially for younger people who are working to discover and understand their own identities. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Medical content, and Medical trauma

maxthefish's review against another edition

adventurous challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

I have never felt more understood then I did reading this. I’ve struggled a lot to figure out if I’m asexual, bisexual, and where I fall on the gender spectrum. I’m so thankful to the author for writing this! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Transphobia, Sexual content, Medical content, and Medical trauma

littleb333's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.75

I really enjoyed reading this book, as a nonbinary person myself, and seeing the difference in how Maia was brought up and discovered eir identity!
I found myself relating to certain things and empathizing, even leaning new things like eir pronouns. I never had a community like em and it makes me happy reading that at least others can see the importance and also gain some confidence in knowing that others go through the same things and that they're not alone.
I really appreciated this book :)

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Content Warnings

Minor: Medical content, Vomit, and Blood

sophiesometimesreads's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative fast-paced

5.0

An informative and inspiring read that has the potential to help so many young people discover their gender and feel like they're not alone. I felt so much joy through this book as Maia reached key milestones in eir gender journey and as ey had moments of gender euphoria. The art style was great too, very detailed but also easy to look at and absorb. The ending did feel a little abrupt but reinforced the well-understood circular queer experience of never having to stop coming out.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Medical content