Until I Love Myself, Vol. 1
VIZ Media LLC · Print & ebook · June 20, 2023
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- Who it’s for
- A blunt autobiography meets the tangled work of confronting identity, harassment, and lasting trauma.
- Themes
- Gender dysphoria, Workplace sexual harassment, Coming to terms with past abuse
- Genres
- Graphic Biography & Memoir, LGBTQ+ Comics, General Manga
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A bravely blunt autobiography about confronting the tangled traumas of gender dysphoria and workplace sexual harassment. Nonbinary manga artist Poppy Pesuyama is excited when forms offer the option to choose “neither” for gender and thrilled about their new job working as an assistant for mangaka X! But then he sexually harasses them, treating them first like a girl and then like something less than human. It only lasts a few months, but in some ways it never ends.
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Born into a body they hate and still reeling from the abuse they faced seven years ago, Pesuyama begins to rail at their past, their friends, and even their mother as they try to come to terms with who they are and what happened to them.
Candor and Aftermath
A blunt autobiography meets the tangled work of confronting identity, harassment, and lasting trauma.
Come here for
- A candid reckoning with gender dysphoria and workplace sexual harassment
- Personal reflections on identity after abuse
Expect
- An unvarnished account of painful, lasting trauma
- A complicated effort to understand the self and the past
Where it sits
| LGBTQ+ Comics | 75% |
|---|---|
| Graphic Biography & Memoir | 69% |
| General Manga | 51% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- General Manga
- Nonfiction Comics
- LGBTQ+ Comics
- Authors
- Poppy Pesuyama
- Publisher
- VIZ Media LLC
- Published
- June 20, 2023
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Gender dysphoria · Workplace sexual harassment · Coming to terms with past abuse
- Reading lane
- General Manga