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Fine: A Comic About Gender by Rhea Ewing

18 reviews

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

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

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

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

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