Gender Queer
2019 • 239 pages
Ratings57
Average rating4.3
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Ratings57
Average rating4.3
In 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. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. 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 it means and how to think about it―for advocates, friends, and humans everywhere.
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Loved the art and the honest and thoughtful self exploration, particularly as it shows it takes time, space, and learning to fully realize lots of pieces of yourself. A must for HS & public collections, this will be so validating for many readers.
when i first heard about this book i wasn't immediately interested, but given all of the controversy in the book world with bans and challenges i felt like i needed to read it just to see what all the fuss was about. this book deepened my understanding of pronoun choice, especially those that seem ‘outside the norm' (i.e. she, he, they). if anything, reading the book has moved me from a position of neutrality on the title to one of strong support. this is an important work to have available for those who need the ability to see themselves in a piece of work and for those who are seeking to better understand the inner lives of others.??
Gender Queer is the most banned book in the US, and I was curious to see why. Well, I’m just embarrassed to be human. (Let’s stop pretending children don’t have genitals, shall we?)
Anyhow, this work is informative and helpful, full of relatable private moments we don’t often get a glimpse of in others.
