Gender Queer

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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 of pap smears Started as a way to explain to eir family what it means to be nonbinary and asexual, Gender Queer is 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. Download Gender Queer – kino-fada.fr I wrote this book and I am proud of it.Youthfully bright, honest, uncertain, optimistic.I adored this It was so heartfelt, detailed, and very deeply honest, raw and personal I loved the page where the author was like when e was a teen I m never writing comics about my personal life lolol But honestly overall this hit me very deeply and I m so grateful I got to read it Absolute recommen...I needed this book 20 years ago Words can not describe how much I love this book It s a memoir about growing up and figuring out that one is non binary and asexual While I am not asexual, I am non binaryand while I can look back on my life now and realize I have always been this way, it took until age 30 to find the words To realize, i m not a freak I m not wrong I m not confused any and if I had had the words and someone else saying me too I never would have had to be That i m I needed this book 20 years ago Words can not describe how much I love this book It s a memoir about growing up and figuring out that one is non binary and asexual While I am not asexual, I am non binaryand while I can look back on my life now and realize I have always been this way, it took until age 30 to find the words To realize, i m not a freak I m not wrong I m not confused any and if I had had the words and someone else saying me too I never would have had to be That i m not alone So many instances of OMG ME TOO Yes, so much yes I feel this so hard Waitthere is a WORD for that And it s not just me It s a memoir of someone else s life but so much of it mirrored my own Not 100% obviously, but a lot of it And it made me feel so incredibly seen I am still trying not to cry while writing thisand i m failing I m so glad to finally understand my struggle ...A memoir by someone so much like me, yet at the same time so unlike me A few times I had to set it down and cry Be forewarned that I can t even pretend to aspire to objectivity, and brace yourselves for a review that s going to beabout me than about the book Or move along if that understandably doesn t appeal to you.The graphic novel format lends itself well to Maia Kobabe s story, perhaps because it adds a playful element that complements the sheer quirkiness of eir life experience A memoir by someone so much like me, yet at the same time so unlike me A few times I had to set it down and cry Be forewarned that I can t even pretend to aspire to objectivity, and brace yourselves for a review that s going to beabout me than about the book Or move along if that understandably doesn t appeal to y...Gender Queer is a memoir comic by Maia Kobabe with a title that signals the desire to reach out to others, I think, of similar non binary inclinations or commitments In this still relatively new moment of non binary pronoun usage to signal identity, Kobabe uses the Gayatri Spivak system of e, em, eir E also identifies as asexual, though e does have a kink or two For part of the book Kobabe identified as bi, but really, e does not want to be either a girl or boy so e s, just for the Gender Queer is a memoir comic by Maia Kobabe with a title that signals the desire to reach out to others, I think, of similar non binary inclinations or commitments In this still relatively new moment of non binary pronoun usage to signal identity, Kobabe uses the Gayatri Spivak system of e, em, eir E also identifies as asexual, though e does have a kink or two For part of the book Kob...i enjoyed this i rarely read memoirs, but i m thinking that i won t be rating them since it s kind of hard to rate a real person s real experiences.i will say this was a very personal memoir that highlighted the author s journey to self acceptance and discovery eir were constantly growing and changing and i liked that the end of this graphic novel was kind of open ended, but satisfying.i also think that despite the simple language used and minimal text, emotion w...The ARC of this book was provided by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review This graphic memoir is very well done and I truly believe that it might be helpful for a lot of people Here the author explores eir gender identity and how e came to be and understand who e is today It was nice seeing a nonbinary person represented and also learning about the e, em, eir pronouns The i...Mini review FANTASTIC Really Read it This graphic novel memoir about gender and identity should make top 10 lists of various kinds for a long, long time.Perhaps one of the best ways to tell your story is through pictures Gender Queer does a beautiful job of explaining thoughts that might seem indescribable to some Maia completely captured me from the first word to the last.

Gender Queer
  • English
  • 05 June 2018
  • Paperback
  • 240 pages
  • 1549304003
  • Maia Kobabe
  • Gender Queer