Reviews tagging 'Outing'

README.txt by Chelsea Manning

10 reviews

rat_girly's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.75

Harrowing, impactful, inspiring. Gave me a lot to think about, especially considering the US funded atrocities happening in Palestine at the moment. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, War, Child abuse, Police brutality, Dysphoria, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Transphobia

Moderate: Suicide, Bullying, Outing, Hate crime, Forced institutionalization, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual assault, Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Vomit, Sexual harassment, Self harm, and Rape

annoyedhumanoid's review against another edition

dark informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

intensely readable but i would have liked more. fuck the DOD for the redactions. the craziest part is that they PUT HER BACK IN JAIL for another year, not mentioned in the book. the injustice she faced/faces is so flagrant you almost forget the US has a constitution meant to protect against it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Hate crime, Bullying, Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Suicidal thoughts, Child abuse, Confinement, Dysphoria, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Mental illness, Sexual violence, Transphobia, Violence, Suicide attempt, Torture, and War

Moderate: Gun violence, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual harassment, Bullying, Racism, Outing, Death of parent, Death, Eating disorder, Alcohol, Sexism, Murder, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Xenophobia, Sexual content, Blood, Drug use, and Deadnaming

themorsecode's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Self harm

Minor: Gaslighting, Outing, Physical abuse, and Deadnaming

nevial's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Outing, War, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual content, Homophobia, Sexual violence, Rape, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Death of parent, Mental illness, Transphobia, and Violence

eli99's review against another edition

dark emotional informative fast-paced

4.0

Every young civilian working on DOD contracts should read this especially if they're LGBT. 

Very insightful to something that was going at the same time as my youth that I didn't understand at the time. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, Torture, Homophobia, Alcoholism, Outing, War, Mental illness, Dysphoria, Deadnaming, Transphobia, Alcohol, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual harassment, and Police brutality

rachbake's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Transphobia, War, Violence, Outing, Mental illness, Dysphoria, Suicide attempt, Sexual assault, Rape, Islamophobia, and Homophobia

daralexandria's review against another edition

informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Outing, Confinement, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, and Transphobia

Minor: Deadnaming

nibs's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative medium-paced

4.75

I read this as the March book for a queer lit bookclub. 
This book made me think. I knew the US military was cooked, but seeing the insideous and complicated ways this played out in Chelsea's life was something else. I really respected her writing - she was honest about her flaws and actions, including negative things. She's a real human and she'd explain the emotions behind these actions - not to gain sympathy but as a fact-based explanation on what lead to those actions. 
She got to tell her own story, something she mentions throughout the book as being important to her.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual assault, Mental illness, Dysphoria, War, Outing, Homophobia, and Transphobia

lowbrowhighart's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Transphobia, War, Confinement, Violence, Xenophobia, Rape, Sexual violence, Homophobia, Suicide attempt, Torture, Islamophobia, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Dysphoria

Moderate: Alcohol, Domestic abuse, Bullying, Alcoholism, Racism, Child death, Child abuse, Deadnaming, Outing, Police brutality, Sexism, and Misogyny

Minor: Medical content, Physical abuse, Animal death, Panic attacks/disorders, and Gaslighting

magneto's review against another edition

challenging informative medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Dysphoria, and Transphobia

Moderate: War, Sexual assault, Suicide attempt, Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Outing, and Deadnaming

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders