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Fine: A Comic About Gender by Rhea Ewing

10 reviews

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

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

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

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

librarymouse's review

challenging emotional informative reflective slow-paced

3.75

I was really excited to start reading this book, but it took me a long time to get through. In random parts, I would find myself getting overwhelmed, but not in a bad way. Just in a way that I needed to put the book down for a little bit and think. Overall, I really enjoyed Rhea Ewing's approach to curating these interviews into a narrative that could be used to discuss the wider cultural impacts gender has. I sometimes had trouble tracking who was speaking. Each individual has a well illustrated face and each section is denoted with their name, but because the interviews were interspersed between one another and I took my time reading the book, some of the connections between sections of one interview or multiple interviews with one person weren't easy for me to see. I was often pulled into the stories they were telling and forgot to check the name in the upper left of the boxes.
I think this is a really valuable resource, but I don't think it's formatted in a way that is best for me as an individual to absorb and digest information.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Body shaming, Classism, Grief, Transphobia, Colonisation, Dysphoria, Hate crime, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Sexual harassment, and Suicidal thoughts

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

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

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