Gender Queer: A Memoir
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Gender Queer: A Memoir

Brand: Oni Press
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UPC: 9781549304002
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Author: Maia Kobabe
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  • Paperback: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Oni Press (May 28, 2019)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1549304003
  • ISBN-13: 978-1549304002
  • Product Dimensions: 5.8 x 0.7 x 8.2 inches

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.

Reviews

"This heartfelt graphic memoir relates, with sometimes painful honesty, the experience of growing up non-gender-conforming. From a very young age, Kobabe is unsure whether to claim a lesbian/gay, bisexual, or even transgender identity: “I don't want to be a girl. I don't want to be a boy either. I just want to be myself.” Kobabe comes of age having to navigate expressions of identity such as clothing and haircuts, with fraught attempts at romantic and sexual entanglements. Eventually, Kobabe's supportive sister concludes: “I think you're a genderless person.” (Kobabe: “She knew before I did.”)
—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

"Artist Maia Kobabe is genderqueer and uses pronouns e, em and eir. In the gorgeous and candid graphic memoir Gender Queer, e illustrates an aching journey toward reconciliation with being nonbinary and asexual... A challenging yet heartwarming memoir, Gender Queer succeeds on all fronts."
—Dave Wheeler, Shelf Awareness

"A book to be savored rather than devoured, this memoir will resonate with teens, especially fans of Alison Bechdel's Fun Home and Mason Deaver's I Wish You All the Best. 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."
—Jenni Frencham, Indiana University, Bloomington, SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL (STARRED) -- Gr 9 Up