Gender Queer - Maia Kobabe

Gender Queer

By Maia Kobabe

  • Release Date: 2019-05-28
  • Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
Score: 4
4
From 64 Ratings

Description

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

  • Excellent

    5
    By KSF25
    Shares experiences in a way parents and teens can understand and discuss. Kudos to er honesty and fearlessness.
  • Gender Queer

    5
    By Playing with words
    This book really helped me understand
  • Gender Queer

    5
    By Doyle Doyle
    Amazing book. Very glad I took the time to read it. I certainly learn a lot. Very talented. I’m a76 year man that wants to understand. I’m getting there. I even have a LBGQTB flag. After all just human.
  • Incredible!

    5
    By Tarauhhh
    I would highly recommend this book to EVERY person. Not only is it highly engaging and well done, it is also deeply educational. This such an important and impressive piece of work. I do not have children but having been a child that grew up during the same time as Maia I know for a fact that there are many 12+ that are curious about sex and sexuality and I believe this is an incredibly appropriate way to educate children of this age on the very things they could be struggling to understand about themselves or their peers. I wish I could give it another star!
  • How is this book for kids?

    1
    By Im ur BFF
    I have heard a lot of fuss about this book and what not and I wanted to see it for myself. First I want to discuss the age range it’s meant for. THE AUTHOR has stated that it is for ages 12-18 but there are multiple illustrations in this book that I don’t believe belong in a book for children. I’d say it’s for ages 18 and above. Secondly. I do like this book and the issues it highlights. I have queer family members and friends and books like this will allow people to understand the difficulties they face growing up. I do not want anyone to think I don’t want kids to know about queer people. By all means write a book like this to show kids that LGBT people exist and that their problems are different. But the illustrations showing penises, and two small children peeing outside I do not believe belong in a book for a 13 year old. I wouldn’t recommend showing this to kids. I place this kind of behavior in the same league as taking kids to drag shows.