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Fine: A Comic About Gender by Rhea Ewing

9 reviews

lanid's review

emotional informative inspiring reflective

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Dysphoria, and Transphobia

spooderman's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Biphobia, Dysphoria, Racism, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Transphobia, Body shaming, Abandonment, Homophobia, Ableism, Gaslighting, Sexism, Racial slurs, and Deadnaming

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Cursing, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Self harm, Drug abuse, Sexual content, Grief, Hate crime, Classism, and Sexual assault

Minor: Child abuse, Colonisation, Xenophobia, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Deportation, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Pregnancy

aus10england's review

hopeful informative medium-paced

3.75

Pretty cool graphic novel that remains formative while utlilizinf the medium of graphic novel! I will say it was sometimes hard to follow each individual person from the art style, but I do like how the sections were divided. Would make for a great edition to any gender studies curriculum!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Lesbophobia, and Homophobia

Moderate: Bullying

bi_n_large's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria, Homophobia, Body shaming, Transphobia, Mental illness, Bullying, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Deadnaming, Addiction, Hate crime, Toxic relationship, Biphobia, Racism, Physical abuse, Suicide attempt, and Abandonment

Minor: Child abuse, Ableism, and Antisemitism

kshertz's review

emotional informative fast-paced

4.0

I read this to understand more about gender and the spectrum. The author took interviews and set them with pictures to tell a story about how different gender can look. It’s definitely a book I can recommend to middle and high schoolers in any form of questioning for gender. It made me understand more and I feel like it would do even more for these students. They will feel seen. I’d like to put a copy in every library, ever❤️ It’s similar to Genderqueer in many ways 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Bullying, Body shaming, Deadnaming, Outing, Suicidal thoughts, Dysphoria, Gaslighting, and Transphobia

ezwolf's review

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

This was a really amazing book that covered all kinds of topics and view points on the subjects of gender and sex and how a person related to them. The author’s pool of interviewees was based in the Midwest so it was a bit limited in that regard but they still had a wide range of view points in term of gender, race, and disability. 

With first the general topic just being how each person related to femininity and then moving on to different topics from there. 

While the author started this as a journey for their own self discovery, it does a great job showcasing how gender and sexuality and how we fit in to cishet or queer or white or able-bodied spaces is all dependent on our own experiences in life and there’s no be “right way” to experience life. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Deadnaming, Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Drug abuse, and Drug use

benediction's review

emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Transphobia, Racism, Dysphoria, Body shaming, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Deadnaming, Sexism, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Misogyny, Biphobia, Bullying, Death, Fatphobia, Grief, Lesbophobia, Mental illness, Medical content, and Pregnancy

Minor: Miscarriage, Drug use, Hate crime, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, Self harm, Sexual content, Religious bigotry, Ableism, Drug abuse, Blood, Classism, and Colonisation

aardwyrm's review

emotional hopeful informative reflective slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deadnaming, Homophobia, Medical content, Transphobia, Violence, Bullying, Dysphoria, Drug use, Child abuse, Abandonment, Emotional abuse, Medical trauma, Outing, and Racism

booksmellers's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

This was a really interesting look into the diverse identities and expressions experienced across a variety of people. I especially appreciated the perspectives of older trans people, because they are not a demographic I've heard from very often. This book covers gender identity in a pretty complex way and also explores various issues that effect the trans community, such as healthcare, housing, and community support. It covers a span of quite a few years as well, so it was interesting to see how the language somewhat changed and evolved since Ewing began these interviews. 

I really liked how the author weaved their personal gender discovery and exploration into the narrative. This book felt unique in that it did follow one narrator, but the reoccurring people they interviewed were also complex supporting characters; it felt like watching a documentary. 

Thank you, NetGalley for an eARC in exchange for an honest review. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Bullying, Deadnaming, Transphobia, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Mental illness, Homophobia, Racism, Medical content, Dysphoria, and Grief