Reviews tagging 'Self harm'

Fine: A Comic About Gender by Rhea Ewing

9 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

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

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

beckbex's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Addiction, Self harm, and Transphobia

Moderate: Alcoholism, Suicide attempt, Ableism, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual harassment, and Sexism

Minor: Emotional abuse and Biphobia

atlanticgiantpumpkin's review

emotional informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

3.5

I found it a bit hard to get into this book, just because I myself had so many similar experiences that for large chunks of the book, I didn’t feel that I was learning anything. Once I got into it, though, I was able to get through it. Very nice, a bit denser of a read than I was expecting for a graphic novel, but it was nice.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Misogyny, Suicide attempt, Transphobia, Dysphoria, Grief, and Homophobia

Moderate: Classism, Death, Cursing, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Sexism, Self harm, Religious bigotry, Racism, Sexual harassment, Biphobia, Body shaming, and Deadnaming

Nudity in various panels

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

aly_young's review

emotional informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, Drug abuse, and Transphobia

littlesmaug's review

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

Please view my full review here: https://littlesmaug.wordpress.com/2022/01/24/arc-review-fine-a-comic-about-gender-by-rhea-ewing/

EXCERPT:  Netgalley provided me with an eARC of Fine: A Comic About Gender, by artist and graphic novelist Rhea Ewing (they/them). This advanced reader copy was provided in exchange for an honest review. I absolutely loved this graphic novel. If you know me, you know I believe in never rating a memoir less than 5 stars, if I must provide a rating, because who am I to judge someone else's life story? Fine is no exception! This is not just one person's stories. Ewing's decade worth of work combines interviews discussing gender with their own gender discovery, giving credit to the people they met along the way that helped them understand the complexities of gender and gender expression. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia

Moderate: Suicide attempt

Minor: Self harm