Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Fine: A Comic About Gender by Rhea Ewing

11 reviews

daniellekat's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

3.0

I think this book is powerful and necessary in the gender conversation, but I think it took on too much and was too long. The author did a good job at trying to highlight the different intersections of gender, and I thought the organization of the chapters was well thought out. However, the jumping between interviewees within specific topics meant that it was hard to follow each individual's "story". Overall, I found this to be an accessible way to consider the topic of gender but I think the execution was a miss for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Dysphoria, and Biphobia

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Mental illness

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

strawberrytheauthor's review

informative lighthearted fast-paced

4.0

It was a good discussion of gender and I learned a lot (coming from a cisgender woman). It was really interesting to see how other people view their gender versus how I view mine and how similar it was. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Addiction, Confinement, Lesbophobia, Transphobia, Homophobia, Abandonment, Biphobia, Deadnaming, Medical trauma, and Mental illness

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

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

ferdie's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

This is nuance and diligence and curiosity. "Fine" gave space to the questions and thoughts I've resented in my own head and gave access to a conversation. Thank you thank you thank you Rhea for making this conversation public and for adding yourself in too. We may not have answers, but we we do have connection 💓

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime and Homophobia

Moderate: Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Self harm, and Suicide attempt

slushhhhy's review

hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

Good read. Mostly just validating and relatable content but found some points to look into more. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

krys_kilz's review

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

I really enjoyed this comic! It was really cool to read so many different perspectives and I appreciated the author's own experiences and self-reflection included throughout. It felt like the book was written with a lot of care.

A lot of Ewing's framing definitely fell more on the liberal side, but overall this was an incredible project and I will look out for what they publish in the future.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Racism, and Transphobia

Moderate: Mental illness, Dysphoria, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Pregnancy

avidales's review

emotional funny informative inspiring reflective

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Misogyny, Transphobia, Mental illness, and Classism

Minor: Ableism, Body shaming, Xenophobia, Addiction, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, and Self harm

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