Reviews with content warning for Acephobia/Arophobia - Gender Queer: A Memoir

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Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe

36 reviews

ouroredux's review

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emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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gwarren's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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kbeucler's review against another edition

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5.0

I tried to buy this book for Banned Books Week last year and it was sold out so I still don’t have a copy, but this month for Trans Rights Read-A-Thon, I thought I would go ahead and get it from the library. It was great. You know I’m always trying to find more ace representation and Kobabe’s graphic memoir explores eir experience as a nonbinary asexual person. My complaint on the last book I read with ace rep (Loveless) was that it didn’t reflect my experience as an ace of not really wanting romantic or sexual relationships. I felt Kobabe’s experience of discovering asexuality more closely mirrored mine, although I identify as a cis woman. I hope everyone can read this book and more books like it. Stop banning books, you cowards.

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rickireadss's review against another edition

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5.0

this is my second memoir, and i am officially convinced i need to read more!! i loved every second of this and am so happy i read this one. while i cannot connect to the feeling's maia experienced in eir adolescence and young adulthood, i found it very informative! 100% recommend this one, especially if you are nonbinary and/or asexual and want to connect to someone who struggled with eir gender identity and sexuality growing up!!

⚠️: dysphoria, medical trauma, blood, medical content, transphobia, homophobia, deadnaming, vomit, excrement, acephobia/arophobia

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cantfindmybookmark's review

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emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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vanessa_reads_a_lot's review against another edition

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emotional informative medium-paced

2.5

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demo's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

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tetedump's review against another edition

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emotional funny informative inspiring fast-paced

5.0

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hmatt's review against another edition

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hopeful informative fast-paced

4.0

I really like how the author breaks down the topics of sexuality, gender, and pronoun use by recounting eir own experiences and thoughts. And I love the comic style! Whether unintentional because of eir experiences or intentional, it's also notable that this comic steers clear of depicting major [trans/homo/bi/etc.]-phobic events, which could potentially trigger certain readers (It does depict and describe many, many minor events and traumatic dysphoric medical experiences - all of these from what I can remember are unintentional? For what that's worth?).

Big big kudos for conveying fandom/shipping/fanfiction/etc. in a positive, affirming, non-judgemental way.

I would have loved to see more explicit discussion around the author's asexuality, but maybe this could come in future works as a dedicated topic? It's mentioned here, but then there are other scenes that are very clearly ace experiences to someone educated on the topic that I think will get overlooked to an uninformed reader.

One of my favourite panels (and honestly an affirming moment, because this is a thought I constantly think) is "Would Harry Styles wear this shirt?" (p. 229).

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purplepenning's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

This was exceptional — exceptionally personal and kind and gently paced and honest. A great example of how a graphic memoir can tell a complex story (and aren't all of our truest stories complex) in a beautifully accessible way.

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