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Gender nonconformity Pride

Breathe: Journeys to Healthy Binding by Maia Kobabe and Sarah Peitzmeier

June 5, 2024 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I will start my review of Breathe: Journeys to Healthy Binding with I am a cisgender female who has never experienced the body dysmorphia the people interviewed in this book have experienced/are experiencing. I understand disliking one’s body and the emotional results that can create, as I have had my own issues with body love, but I cannot understand the depth that impact can take on one when it is not only not “right” by not only “looking wrong”,  but also is the wrong gender […]

Filed Under: Featured, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, Non-Fiction, Short Stories, Young Adult Tagged With: gender, Gender expression, Gender nonconformity, glbtq, Maia Kobabe, Maia Kobabe and Sarah Peitzmeier, Sarah Peitzmeier, Social Themes, Social Topics

BlackRaven's CBR16 Review No:264 · Genres: Featured, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, Non-Fiction, Short Stories, Young Adult · Tags: gender, Gender expression, Gender nonconformity, glbtq, Maia Kobabe, Maia Kobabe and Sarah Peitzmeier, Sarah Peitzmeier, Social Themes, Social Topics ·
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Nichols tells about the flocks that inspired Flocks

Flocks by L. Nichols

March 14, 2019 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Flocks by L. Nichols is an odd little gem that proves you might not get what you expected, but you get what is needed. I am giving it a five as it is a 4.9 due to are a few questions I still have, but over all this is a “comfortable” book, despite the tough subject matter. SPOILER: If you were like me and did a little looking around about the book, you will learn the narrator is a trans-male (before the revel in the […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Non-Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: Dysfunctional Families, Female-to-male transsexuals, Gender expression, Gender identity, L. Nichols, lgbt, religious, Transgender people

BlackRaven's CBR11 Review No:76 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Non-Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: Dysfunctional Families, Female-to-male transsexuals, Gender expression, Gender identity, L. Nichols, lgbt, religious, Transgender people ·
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