Gender Queer, Maia Kobabe
Gender Queer, Maia Kobabe
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Gender Queer
A Memoir

Author: Maia Kobabe

Narrator: Maia Kobabe, Trini Alvarado, Stephen Graybill, Phoebe Kobabe, Jeremy Carlisle Parker, Full Cast

Unabridged: 1 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/07/2024


Synopsis

2020 ALA Alex Award Winner
2020 Stonewall — Israel Fishman Non-fiction Award Honor Book

The ground-breaking, bestselling graphic novel is now available on audio.

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. Then e created Gender Queer. 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.

"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)

About The Author

Maia Kobabe is a nonbinary, queer author and illustrator from the Bay Area, California. Eir first full length book, GENDER QUEER: A MEMOIR, was published in May 2019. Maia's short comics have been published by The Nib and in many anthologies including THE SECRET LOVES OF GEEKS, FASTER THAN LIGHT Y'ALL, GOTHIC TALES OF HAUNTED LOVE, SHOUT OUT, ADVANCED DEATH SAVES and BE GAY, DO COMICS. Before setting out to work freelance full-time, e worked for over ten years in libraries. Eir work is heavily influenced by fairy tales, homesickness, and the search for identity.


Reviews

I am so happy and thankful for books such as this, protect it as it frequently faces bad-faith challanges for removal and should remain on shelves in public libraries. While 2021 set a record for most number of challenges or bans to books in the US, with 1,597 books targeted across 729 challenges (f......more

"Some people are born in mountains while others are born by the sea. Some people are happy to live in the place they were born, while others must make a journey to reach the climate in which they can flourish and grow!" As being a 18 year old teen , i am still questioning my sexual orientation and ge......more

Goodreads review by Dave

3/29/23: Here is a link to news that this good book is the most censored book in this time of censorship and bookburning: [URL not allowed] I say recommend and buy and share this book widely, to undermine all the people that are one-starring it just because it is about glbtq iss......more