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,
Product details
Publisher : Oni Press (May 28 2019)
Language : English
Paperback : 240 pages
ISBN-10 : 1549304003
ISBN-13 : 978-1549304002
Item weight : 476 g
Dimensions : 14.61 x 1.78 x 20.96 cm
Best Sellers Rank: #34,803 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
#12 in LGBTQ2S+ Coming Out
#33 in Graphic Novel Biographies
#48 in LGBTQ2S+ Biographies & Memoirs
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