Title: Gender Queer
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 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.
Subjects: Literature, LGBTQ biography and memoir, Stonewall Book Awards, collectionID:TexChallenge2021, collectionID:KellerChallenge, collectionID:AlpineChallenge, collectionID:ConroeChallenge, Comic books, strips, Gender-nonconforming people, Biography, Asexual people, Sexual minority youth, Sexual minorities, Asexuality (Sexual orientation), Gender identity, Coming out (Sexual orientation), Sexual and Gender Minorities, collectionID:bannedbooks, Gender, LGBTQ, Autobiographie, Autofiktion, Coming out, Lesbisch, gay, queer, asexual, asexuell, banned books, non binary, nicht binär, nichtbinär, genderqueer, Comics, Cartoons, Karikaturen, Graphic Novels, LGBTI, Memoir, Nonfiction, Biography Memoir
Places: California (United States)
People: Maia Kobabe
Time periods: 2014