Gender Queer

           

Title: Gender Queer: A Memoir

Author: Maia Kobabe

Publisher: Lion Forge Comics, May 28, 2019

Pages: 239

Genre: Nonfiction / LGBTQ / Memoir

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.

Thank you for taking us on your journey. It felt beautifully vulnerable. It's so interesting to read about an experience so very unlike me own. To read about someone who faced really similar stimuli, at the same time as me, and reacted in such a different way. That sounds silly to say. Of course people react differently. But it really is so interesting to see it in this way. 

Ratings

Stars: 5/5