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hayleymorgan548 's review for:
Queer Heroes of Myth and Legend
by Dan Jones
*3.5 - looses 0.5 for lack of asexual spectrum rep.
Fascinating to learn about queer figures from myths & popular books/media. I totallly missed that Zeus had male lovers, i was focused on his horrible treatment of his female lovers & their children (& Hera's worsening of the situation).
I was disappointed by the lack of asexual spectrum people. I thought for sure they'd mention asexuals when talking about The Doctor from Doctor Who, who i always felt was demisexual.
It was great to read about so many trans/ gender nonconforming figures - like Shikhandi. In their section i also loved learn more about the hijra (Indian's third gender) & how truly ancient to group is & yet still terribly mistreated.
It was so to see to constantly reminded that though a country/ religion may have had gods that were queer/ somewhere else on the gender spectrum, that didn't mean that regular people in that country/ religion were able to be the same, especially not openly & with the same basic rights as heternormative people.
Fascinating to learn about queer figures from myths & popular books/media. I totallly missed that Zeus had male lovers, i was focused on his horrible treatment of his female lovers & their children (& Hera's worsening of the situation).
I was disappointed by the lack of asexual spectrum people. I thought for sure they'd mention asexuals when talking about The Doctor from Doctor Who, who i always felt was demisexual.
It was great to read about so many trans/ gender nonconforming figures - like Shikhandi. In their section i also loved learn more about the hijra (Indian's third gender) & how truly ancient to group is & yet still terribly mistreated.
It was so to see to constantly reminded that though a country/ religion may have had gods that were queer/ somewhere else on the gender spectrum, that didn't mean that regular people in that country/ religion were able to be the same, especially not openly & with the same basic rights as heternormative people.