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Us by Sara Soler

14 reviews

bobabunnie's review

funny hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

very sweet autobiography with very cute art- i love seeing stories similar to my own! some parts were very informational, with teachings i don’t personally need, but there are definitely people who could learn from this book.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Transphobia and Homophobia

Minor: Deadnaming

amazelan's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative lighthearted medium-paced

4.0

une BD très complète qui retrace les débuts d'une transition avec douceur mais sans oublier les péripéties transphobes.

j'ai beaucoup aimé les dessins !
la façon de raconter est vraiment typique d'un fanzine mais ça change, j'aime bien.
je trouve ça chouette d'avoir le pdv à la fois de Diana et de Sara, ça montre l'intersection des discriminations très bien : transphobie, mysoginie, lesbophobie, biphobie.
les passages de violence ne sont pas atténués et c'est important de ne pas l'avoir fait, mais il n'y a pas non plus un giga focus sur ça. c'est aussi un bol de douceur et d'air frais, avec des passages super mimis, remplis d'amour.

je pense que c'est une BD parfaite pour sensibiliser les personnes à la transidentité, mais c'est aussi chouette à lire en tant que concerné.e parce que ça fait du bien de lire une histoire où tout n'est pas sur-dramatisé :)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Misogyny, Deadnaming, Gaslighting, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Toxic friendship, and Transphobia

black_flamed_candle_b00ks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Misogyny, Biphobia, Transphobia, Dysphoria, and Cursing

Minor: Deadnaming, Mental illness, and Hate crime

grey_jayne's review

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

5.0

I read Us as part of the Trans Rights Readathon. It's so sweet and honest and informative in the best ways. I love both people through their comic selves and that's beautiful. I could not recommend this memoir of two women in love enough if I tried. Everyone should read it. So much care and love (and laughs) are given to this story. Such a treat. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Transphobia, Biphobia, and Homophobia

readingpicnic's review against another edition

3.0

I really enjoyed the art style of this! I didn't read the synopsis before picking this up, and I'm pretty sure that I've seen this advertised as a book by a trans author, which isn't true since it's written by a cisgender bisexual woman whose partner is a trans woman. The story mainly focuses on the author's partner's social transition with many different groups of people and the reactions they receive in coming out. I appreciated the author's honesty with including thought processes she was going through that she feels shame and regret about now that she's looking back on her reaction to her partner coming out. On that note though, I feel like this book's primary audience is not trans people, but cis people like the author who are having someone close to them transition. I didn't not enjoy it as a trans person, but it kind of felt like a book for educating cis people on how to and how not to react to someone close to them coming out as trans since we mainly got the cis author's perspective for the whole book. I will also say that the author's humor is not for me, and I feel like she seemed too jokey about how her partner now has to experience transmisogyny and catcalling from strangers. Idk, it was an okay book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Biphobia, and Homophobia

nerdysread's review against another edition

emotional funny informative inspiring lighthearted medium-paced

4.75

🥺🥺🥺 j'ai adoré. J'ai adoré le style de l'autrice mais aussi que même si le livre comporte (helas) de la transphobie ca reste assez léger. C'est beau et parfois même drôle 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia

Moderate: Biphobia and Homophobia

robinks's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative lighthearted reflective medium-paced

5.0

I loved this story! As a trans person, the anecdotes were so relatable. The art and colors are also really cute.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria, Misogyny, Lesbophobia, Biphobia, Sexism, Transphobia, and Homophobia

Moderate: Medical trauma, Gaslighting, and Deadnaming

Minor: Terminal illness, Cancer, and Mental illness

the_vegan_bookworm's review against another edition

emotional hopeful fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Homophobia, Dysphoria, and Deadnaming

sabrinalefebvre's review

emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced

4.0

I really liked how the artist only used various shades of pink and blue to illustrate this story, I felt like it gave it more impact.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Transphobia, and Homophobia

betweentheshelves's review

emotional informative fast-paced

5.0

This is just a really lovely graphic novel memoir about finding yourself, and finding people who accept you as you are. The overall tone is lighthearted, but doesn't shy away from some of the more difficult topics that come with being trans and queer in present day society. I especially appreciated that they emphasized that there is no one way to be trans, and highlighted a lot of information in that aspect. 

The tone stays pretty upbeat for most of the book, and I thoroughly enjoyed the art style. An important book and just a lovely one to read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Dysphoria, and Transphobia

Moderate: Homophobia, Deadnaming, and Misogyny