Gender Queer: A Memoir
Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe, published by Oni Press on May 28, 2019, is a 240-page graphic memoir that explores the author’s journey of self-identity. Using e/em/eir pronouns, Kobabe shares personal experiences that include the challenges of adolescent crushes, the complexities of coming out, and the emotional impact of navigating gender identity. This memoir serves as both an autobiographical account and a resource for understanding nonbinary and asexual identities.
Readers will find that Gender Queer presents a candid look at the author’s life, offering insights into the struggles and triumphs of self-discovery. The narrative addresses themes relevant to the LGBT community and provides a thoughtful guide for advocates and friends seeking to understand gender identity. Through a blend of personal storytelling and informative content, Kobabe’s work aims to foster empathy and awareness around these important topics.
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2020 ALA Alex Award Winner
2020 Stonewall — Israel Fishman Non-fiction Award Honor Book
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)
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