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Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe

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cymbal_curtain's review against another edition

emotional funny tense medium-paced

3.0

This book was ok. This is a book about growing up queer mostly. about question gender and sexuality and about hanging out with friends and partners.

1) this book presents "brain sexes" as a scientific truth. This is instead a very controversial topic, without scientific consensus. read the linked for more info (it backs up my claim and is a scientific journal)

https://bsd.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13293-022-00448-w

2) it, if not misinforms, at least confuses, the reader about what "asexual" means. Although the word has some multiple meanings, it primarily means not experiencing attraction, not "not masturbating". And it's fine to me if the author identifies/identified to some extent with the label, but because this is a book I'm a bit disappointed about this.

cws:
I can't list this in the storygraph system as a content warning, but the book does contain romance.

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crackedspines_'s review against another edition

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This is another one I read part of for school and didn’t enjoy enough to finish. I know a lot of people loved this one and I’ve seen a lot of people say it’s “groundbreaking” or that it adds something new to the trans literary canon and frankly I disagree with that. I feel like this is a very common queer narrative - a trans person who has always known they were “different” but didn’t know that meant queer, and they have an accepting family and friends and ample access to queer resources. This is in no way a critique on Maia Kobabe’s life. Eir life is eir life; there’s no arguing with eir lived experiences. Nor is it a critique of eir choice to write this book, especially knowing why e did. I’m just saying that as a narrative, I don’t think it adds much and it’s not a story I am personally interested in reading.

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dannothedino's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

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stevia333k's review

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adventurous emotional funny inspiring fast-paced

5.0

So I mean knowing about the Comstock act after the fall of roe v wade, it makes sense how racial capitalist patriarchy was organized enough to do the book banning shit

But OMG as a trans woman it helped give me context to my internalized transphobia

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jjstoff's review against another edition

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informative medium-paced

3.0

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samanthas_bookshelf's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful informative fast-paced

5.0

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autumnk3lly's review

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inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

I don’t think words can describe how much this book effected me. I only picked it up because my Queer Lit professor mentioned it was currently one of the most banned books in the country. I identify as cisgender, but there were so many other parts that really hit hard; Eir struggle with eir’s sexuality and confusion on who they are. I can’t really describe it. I HATE how this book is heavily banned and censored; i think every queer person should read it eventually. I read it cover to cover in about two hours

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maxthefish's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

I have never felt more understood then I did reading this. I’ve struggled a lot to figure out if I’m asexual, bisexual, and where I fall on the gender spectrum. I’m so thankful to the author for writing this!

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sophiesometimesreads's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful informative fast-paced

5.0

An informative and inspiring read that has the potential to help so many young people discover their gender and feel like they're not alone. I felt so much joy through this book as Maia reached key milestones in eir gender journey and as ey had moments of gender euphoria. The art style was great too, very detailed but also easy to look at and absorb. The ending did feel a little abrupt but reinforced the well-understood circular queer experience of never having to stop coming out.

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traa's review against another edition

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emotional funny reflective medium-paced

5.0

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