Reviews tagging 'Homophobia'

Everything Is Beautiful, and I'm Not Afraid: A Baopu Collection by Yao Xiao

6 reviews

litematcha's review against another edition

emotional inspiring lighthearted reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Homophobia, and Sexual harassment

Trypophobia warning for pictures on pages 12-14 of the paperback version.

brogan7's review against another edition

funny hopeful lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.0

Cute.  A 20-something queer, China born American woman writes about her coming out, her relationship to herself, the struggles of culture clash and memories, poetry, making art, body image, being hopeful.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Body shaming and Homophobia

readingpicnic's review against another edition

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, Racism, and Homophobia

nikmalikov's review

emotional reflective

2.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Biphobia, Fatphobia, and Racism

chandle5's review

emotional inspiring slow-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Homophobia, Transphobia, and Xenophobia

readingwithkt's review

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

Swithered between giving this 4 or 5 stars so I'm going to sit on it and see how I feel about it over time.

My immediate feeling is that this is a beautiful graphic novel that explores identity, belonging, family ties, and mental wellbeing. The graphic novel is compiled of various short comics which build out an overall narrative of a queer Chinese immigrant in the USA, finding their place in their new home and feeling out their identity (loved the comic on the boxes we fit in/choose).

So many of the comics in this memoir-esque graphic novel really moved me - definitely one I'd like to buy and reread (I read a library copy).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Mental illness, Racism, and Fatphobia