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Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
challenging
emotional
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
This book highlights the diversity of (mostly) Black, (mostly) women. It draws people together and highlights their differences, yet humanises everyone.
I loved almost everything about it. This book was embued with feminist discussions, and is one of my favourites. However, I did feel let down by the frequent deadnaming of a non-binary character in the book. I feel like their story could have been told without using their deadname at all (or if anything only a couple of times), rather than it being used so frequently with their old pronouns to communicate their past. I understand the idea of doing this to make it less confusing to talk about this character pre-transition, but this is a similar argument many people use to justify continuing to deadname trans folks, which is really hurtful.
I guess I expected better since so many complex feminist ideas are addressed in this book.
I loved almost everything about it. This book was embued with feminist discussions, and is one of my favourites. However, I did feel let down by the frequent deadnaming of a non-binary character in the book. I feel like their story could have been told without using their deadname at all (or if anything only a couple of times), rather than it being used so frequently with their old pronouns to communicate their past. I understand the idea of doing this to make it less confusing to talk about this character pre-transition, but this is a similar argument many people use to justify continuing to deadname trans folks, which is really hurtful.
I guess I expected better since so many complex feminist ideas are addressed in this book.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Deadnaming, Transphobia, and Toxic relationship