Reviews tagging 'Deadnaming'

Transgender History: The Roots of Today's Revolution by Susan Stryker

6 reviews

cogowno's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deadnaming, Physical abuse, Medical trauma, Homophobia, Transphobia, and Dysphoria

arinheck's review against another edition

funny hopeful informative inspiring slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia

Moderate: Hate crime, Medical content, Sexism, Violence, and Deadnaming

purplepenning's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.25

Read during the #TransRightsReadathon. A good overview, updated in 2017, of trans history from the 1950s on. It focuses on human rights and social justice in historical social context, but does include some scientific/medical history as well. The glossary at the beginning is useful, but be advised, as the author points out, that language can change rapidly, so it should be a starting point and guide to understanding the terminology used in the book rather than a definitive source for current usage.     

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Transphobia, and Hate crime

Moderate: Medical trauma, Rape, Sexism, Violence, Deadnaming, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, and Sexual assault

Minor: Deadnaming and Suicide attempt

arsenic_'s review against another edition

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Outing, Deadnaming, and Transphobia

solly's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring slow-paced

4.0

This is my hundredth book of the year!! I started it sooo long ago, I take so long to read non-fiction physical books!

It was excellent though, I learnt some stuff, realized TERFs have been using the same tired arguments for way longer than I thought, and it deepened my pride and determination as a queer activist and LGBT+ centre volunteer. I WISH there were queer history books about French queer history but I can't really find any, so I'll read all the US and UK one instead.

Overall excellent and informative, but the first 40-pages chapter full of definitions made me put it down for a while. It's also very academic so not a *good* time or *fun* time but it's full of information. I knew about a decent number of events mentionned because of assignements I did on US queer history but I still learnt stuff especially since I'm young and it's not my country's politics.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deadnaming, Hate crime, Homophobia, and Transphobia

ashheinrich's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Minor: Biphobia, Deadnaming, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Hate crime, Homophobia, Medical trauma, Medical content, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Transphobia, and Violence