Gender Queer: A Memoir Av Maia Kobabe

In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, <br/>thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical <br/>comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable <br/>with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia's intensely <br/>cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the <br/>mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come <br/>out to family and society, bonding with friends over erotic gay fanfiction, and <br/>facing the trauma and fundamental violation of pap smears. Started as a way to <br/>explain to eir family what it means to be nonbinary and asexual, Gender Queer is <br/>more than a personal story: it is a useful and touching guide on gender <br/>identity-what it means and how to think about it-for advocates, <br/>friends, and humans everywhere.