Gender Queer: A Memoir Kobabe Maia
Gender Queer: A Memoir Kobabe Maia 2020 ALA Alex Award Winner 2020 Stonewall -- Israel Fishman Non-fiction Award Honor BookIn 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of…
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Gender Queer: A Memoir Kobabe Maia
2020 ALA Alex Award Winner 2020 Stonewall -- Israel Fishman Non-fiction Award Honor BookIn 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. Now, Gender Queer is here. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em.
Maia's intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come out to family and society, bonding with friends over erotic gay fanfiction, and facing the trauma and fundamental violation of pap smears.Started as a way to explain to eir family what it means to be nonbinary and asexual, Gender Queer is more than a personal story: it is a useful and touching guide on gender identity--what