Reviews tagging 'Hate crime'

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

9 reviews

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

booksbeyondthebinary's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Homophobia, and Transphobia

Moderate: Rape and Racism

razzberry_pi's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

4.0

Good introduction to trans history in the US, covering major events up to ~2017. If you are generally familiar with queer history/studies maybe skip/skim the definitions chapter as some of the labels are outdated/wrongly defined. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Sexual harassment, and Homophobia

Moderate: Sexism, Suicide, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Biphobia, Police brutality, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Hate crime

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

keeganrb's review

challenging informative slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Transphobia, and Homophobia

Moderate: Rape, Racial slurs, and Racism

Minor: Forced institutionalization, Biphobia, and Sexual assault

biblioghoul's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Hate crime, Transphobia, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Death, Sexual assault, Suicide, Police brutality, Outing, and Forced institutionalization

schopenhauers_poodle's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

3.25

Very accessible, concise book that's focused on transgender history in the US (only). I found it informative and moving. Be aware that the latter portion of the book is becoming rapidly outdated given current events and some of the terms used might be falling out of favor. If you need a starting point, this book is an ok one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Rape

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