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Fine: A Comic About Gender by Rhea Ewing

6 reviews

therainbowshelf's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

Rhea's project to understand gender on a deeper level and unexpected self-examination is a thoughtful, inclusive look at gender and gender experiences. I loved this insightful book. Rhea approaches the subject matter extremely well. This definitely got me thinking many times. It was interesting to read so many people's experiences paird with Rhea's own reflections.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia

Moderate: Hate crime, Drug use, Deadnaming, Dysphoria, Homophobia, Sexism, Death, and Grief

Minor: Ableism and Colonisation

kaimetcalfe's review

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Transphobia, Suicide attempt, Violence, Dysphoria, Grief, Mental illness, Suicide, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, and Body shaming

Moderate: Death, Medical trauma, Murder, Colonisation, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Drug use, Racism, Drug abuse, and Classism

Minor: Chronic illness, Ableism, and Domestic abuse

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

jackelz's review

informative reflective slow-paced

What started as a school project, turned into a decade-long quest interviewing (56) people across the spectrum of gender identities. 

It was beautiful to see how everyone had different answers to all the posed questions. This just goes to show you how fluid gender is and there is more to it than a binary option on a questionnaire. 

Themes: femininity, masculinity, race, gender expression, body image, hormones, health care, labels, relationships, bathrooms, housing, and the queer community. All of these things factor into ones identity. 

Amidst other peoples personal stories is Ewing's own story growing up in rural Kentucky, grappling with their identity as a teenager, and ultimately finding themself. 

CW: gender dysphoria, transphobia, racism, ableism, body image issues, drug use, sex work, suicidal ideation, suicide attempt 

Thank you Edelweiss for the Digital Review Copy. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Racism, Suicide attempt, and Transphobia

Moderate: Body shaming, Drug use, Dysphoria, and Suicidal thoughts