eren_reads's reviews
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A play that is said to be Shakespeare's most violent play, why wouldn't I want to read it? And most violent it was. Despite, or more accurately because of, the violence I really enjoyed this play. However, not as much as some of his other tragedies

This wasn't entirely what I expected it to be as I thought it was going to be more focused on gender euphoria or other similarly beautiful experiences that are unique to the trans experience (in hindsight, this expectation was entirely my fault as the actual blurb makes it very clear what it was about.) Despite this, I really enjoyed this short book about trans men's experiences and found myself relating, as a genderqueer person who also lives in England.

This is an incredibly dense, thoroughly researched and greatly insightful book on climate change.

- Welcome

This is a great collection of poetry that reflects on the experiences of being and woman and girl and being an immigrant.

What can I say? I’m but a simple queer who will eat up anything to do with greek mythology.

Unfortunately this is my lowest rated book of this year so far and my primary issue with this book is that it simply is not about what it's title suggests its about. I went into this book expecting an examination and dissection of the history of sex ed and the issues with how current sex ed is taught. Alongside that I expected suggestions of solutions for these problems and how sex ed can, well, be 'transformed.' 

Instead I got a book that felt as though it bit of more than it could chew. The author tried to explore so many aspects of sex and sexuality like contraceptives, pornography and modern dating. However, none of these topics felt as though they were fully explored and I found it too simplistic, though I will admit that I am biased as I have read quite a lot of books on these issues.

One particular issue I had with this book, which has been mentioned by other reviewers, or rather one particular section I had an issue with was the section on contraceptives. At the beginning of this section the author outlines how teaching on contraceptives are very hetero and cisnormative, giving little to no information on contraceptives used outside of cis and heterosexual sex. Great! I one hundred percent agree with that statement. Yet she goes on to detail four contraceptive methods that are used predominately or exclusively in heterosexual sex. Even the ones that are used in queer sex, like condoms, are only touched upon from a heteronormative perspective. Why state that there is an issue with utilising a heteronormative perspective to teach about contraceptives when that is what you yourself are going to do? Additionally, I didn't find much insight into the contraceptives that the author does talk about nor did I find it particularly detailed. 

This is an interesting exploration of motherhood and how gender roles disadvantage mothers in parenting.

This is a beautiful collection of poetry. I loved the way Ted Hughes utilised natural imagery to present his ideas.

Whilst I found this easy enough to read, I will say that this manifesto failed at being accessible for who they want to read this, women as a whole. There was a lot of academic jargon some unnecessary and some necessary but not properly explained. Hence why my rating is low.

I enjoyed the first half of this collection more than the second. However, that may be less to do with the actually quality of the latter poems than me not being a big fan of long poetry collection and maybe not being in the right headspace for the latter half.