Reviews tagging 'Excrement'

Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe

22 reviews

peytonhhill's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.75

What an excellent book. I learned way more than I thought I would! The author does a great job of storytelling and I really feel like I have a much deeper understanding of how trans and nonbinary experiences can be after reading. I think everyone would benefit from reading this! Honestly it is way more tame than I thought it would be considering how controversial and banned it is. Hats off to the author for putting it out there, what a brave thing to do. I feel grateful for the reading experience!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Transphobia, Gaslighting, Medical trauma, and Sexual content

felicityebhaslin's review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Transphobia, Acephobia/Arophobia, and Medical content

Minor: Transphobia, Deadnaming, Excrement, Cancer, Chronic illness, and Vomit

antijeffbozo_love2read's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective relaxing fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Blood, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Gore, Alcoholism, Misogyny, Medical content, Excrement, Transphobia, Drug use, Toxic friendship, Deadnaming, Body shaming, and Medical trauma

Minor: Chronic illness, Pregnancy, Vomit, and Cancer

Injury/gore is metaphorical and features a character impaled on a spike in a couple of different instances. It metaphorically represents emotional/physical pain and features some amount of blood, nothing else. Blood warning mainly applies to menstrual blood.

rubadubindabathtub's review against another edition

informative reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Vomit

Minor: Excrement, Biphobia, Acephobia/Arophobia, Death, and Transphobia

sapphic_alpaca's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Excrement, Vomit, Deadnaming, and Misogyny

k_williams_15's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Blood, Medical trauma, and Outing

Minor: Excrement

With the content warnings, I feel it is important to note that nothing in this book depicts abuse or hate.

strawberrytheauthor's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring fast-paced

5.0

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It is an autobiographical comic about Maia Kobabe’s gender identity. I understand why it has been such a challenged book because some of the scenes are very graphic, but I think it has an important purpose and message. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria, Medical trauma, Excrement, Vomit, Sexual content, Medical content, Body horror, and Blood

Minor: Bullying

samflowerv6's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria and Excrement

caitlinemccann's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, and Dysphoria

Moderate: Sexual content, Panic attacks/disorders, and Homophobia

Minor: Vomit and Excrement

bashsbooks's review

emotional hopeful informative inspiring fast-paced

4.25

I applaud Kobabe for being willing to share eir gender journey and identity with a country and a world that is currently saying they don't want to hear it. I see why this book has been banned so much, and it makes me incredibly sad, because e's experience is so relatable in many ways - from the discomfort of being labeled as a girl and separated from the boys, to the obsession with queer fic that makes you worry you're fetishizing people until you realize you're one of them, to the fear of the pap smear, and definitely to the reactions of the cis women who love you and fear you're suffering from internalized misogyny.

That said, Gender Queer does feel rushed and incomplete in places. Some of the transitions are blunt and awkward, and some of the story feels glossed over or pressed for time (specifically, when e goes into the biological explanations for eir gender - that is a lot of info, and fast). I wish it had been longer, more thorough, maybe multiple volumes, though I understand that Kobabe may not want to share that much.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Dysphoria, Excrement, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Vomit

Moderate: Cursing, Sexual content, and Transphobia

-Misgendering (mostly accidental) -Most of the blood is menstrual blood -Note that because this is a graphic novel, everything listed here is visually depicted.