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Gender Queer: A Memoir

Graphic Novel

Published: Print · 2019

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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,…

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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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Award Recognition
Received a YALSA Alex Award.
YALSA Alex Awards
Podcast Episode
Gender Queer: A Memoir, by Maia Kobabe (2019) feat. Linea Kemsley
Burn This Book: A Banned Books Book Club · 2024-02-21 · Listen ↗
Podcast Episode
Maia Kobabe
Gender Reveal · 2019-07-01 · Listen ↗
Listen on Apple Podcasts
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Sources

1
YALSA Alex Awards
Award Recognition
2
Burn This Book: A Banned Books Book Club
Gender Queer: A Memoir, by Maia Kobabe (2019) feat. Linea Kemsley
3
Gender Reveal
Maia Kobabe