Reader Score
82%
82% of readers
recommend this book
Critic Reviews
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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.
"It's also a great resource for those who identify as nonbinary or asexual as well as for those who know someone who identifies that way and wish to better understand." -- SLJ (starred review)
Jess Fink is a comic book creator.
Finally read Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe. It's amazing how many of their experiences line up exactly with my own. It's truly exhilarating to feel that queer human commonality, to relate on such a profoundly personal level. It's auto bio comics at their best.
Shing Yin Khor is an artist and cartoonist.
anyway, buy Gender Queer, it is a fantastic graphic memoir and it is expansive and affirming and beautifully illustrated.
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Maia Kobabe discusses writing Gender Queer, a memoir about self-acceptance and understanding, which has been challenged in schools and libraries across the USA in recent months. https://t.co/9gGUDEoMfd https://t.co/2jvMF3JBz6