Reviews with content warning for Biphobia - Gender Queer: A Memoir

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Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe

17 reviews

jordanbolker's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing sad fast-paced

5.0

An absolute must-read for anyone and everyone! I learned so much and would highly recommend this. I’m happy to have my own copy to read forever.

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galacticvex's review against another edition

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challenging emotional hopeful inspiring fast-paced

3.75

big note off the top: I appreciate the writing style of this memoir, and that the audiobook was narrated by the author! it's always a treat when an author reads their own work.

I struggled with some of the terminology (specifically around

kink

) and concepts (specifically around topics like fanfiction). mostly due to it being substantially more graphic than I was anticipating, especially when it came to

sexual exploration as a youth and adult

and descriptions of

medical experiences

. all in all I think I would have benefitted from content warnings, or otherwise some more heads up in chapter names.

all that said I found myself often resonating the experiences explored, and generally appreciated learning more about the ones I didn't have first hand knowledge of.

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starduststyx's review

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hopeful reflective

3.75

I thought it was a nice book and don't see anything wrong with having a child read this like-
I saw so much of my younger self in this ( and also lots of parts i didn't that's ok too! ) it's just nice having more nonbinary stories out there for young trans folks to learn from.

Also warning to readers. There's lots of harry potter mentions but I'm pretty sure this came out before all the transphobia from JKR was public. It sucks, but it is what it is.

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chickaboogawah's review

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emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

I really loved this book and hope to share it with many people. Maia clearly explains eir thoughts and choices growing up, and I hope my kids are inspired by em.

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bex4dayz's review against another edition

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funny informative inspiring fast-paced

5.0

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lisacanteven's review against another edition

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hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.5

This graphic novel gave me so much to think about. I went into it without any expectations other than it has been banned, so I know the stupid conservatives hate it. Honestly that's always a plus to me. I found myself introspectively reading it; there was a lot more identifying going on than I expected. I really, really appreciate how raw, real, and relatable Maia was with this book. People all over the world can identify with eir feelings, and they probably don't even know it yet. If someone doesn't identify with any of Maia's feelings, they probably know someone who does.

*1/2-1 star off for the multiple Harry Potter references. I understand that Maia is trans, so e is someone who should be able to discuss HP if ey want. However it is still triggering, and I just wish we could erase all mentions everywhere by everyone since JKR keeps furthering her harmful anti-trans views and desire for anti-trans regulations passed everywhere. I think everyone, including all trans people, should reevaluate what about JKR is so valuable to them despite the hurt and harm she causes. I was hoping that since I bought the new special edition, all HP references would have been edited out. Mentioning HP instead of keeping it vague adds nothing positive to the story. It just adds triggering content.*

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