num_pages: 240
description: 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 more than a personal story: it is a useful and touching guide on gender identitywhat it means and how to think about itfor advocates friends and humans everywhere.
language: English
title: Gender Queer: A Memoir
publisher: Oni Press