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Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe

36 reviews

author2223's review

emotional informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria

Moderate: Acephobia/Arophobia, Transphobia, Toxic friendship, and Outing

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Medical trauma, and Deadnaming

jayisreading's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

This was a beautiful exploration of gender and sexuality, especially how difficult it is to ever make sense of either and the close relationship they have to each other. I deeply felt the struggle that Kobabe had, trying to make sense of why assigned gender roles felt uncomfortable. What I really appreciated about this memoir was how honest Kobabe was about eir confusion throughout. I think a lot of times, people don’t realize that you don’t always reach the end of the gender/sexuality journey. Sometimes you slip between the cracks; sometimes you wander off the path; and sometimes you’re at a standstill, not knowing what to do next. I thought Kobabe depicted this really well.

Another thing worth highlighting about this memoir is its accessibility to people who may not be as in-the-loop with gender, pronouns, and everything in-between. There’s a particular vulnerability discussing this the way Kobabe did, which is through eir interpersonal relationships and the difficulties that come with the conversations that inevitably come up about gender.

I think what really made this memoir work was that it was a graphic novel. The illustrations were beautiful, highlighting so much of the love, color, and brightness that exists in Kobabe’s life. It wasn’t all sunshine and rainbows, though, and I appreciated the moments when the artwork also took a serious turn at certain points (I specifically think of the scenes with the gynecologist).

All-in-all, this was such a thoughtful and beautiful read. I’m so glad that there are more books out there for trans and nonbinary people to pick up and see a little more of themselves.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria, Medical trauma, and Transphobia

Moderate: Blood, Acephobia/Arophobia, Sexual content, and Deadnaming

zirrico's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

Fantastic book. As a fellow asexual person, I found the portions of the book related to asexuality very relatable.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Acephobia/Arophobia

Very small mentions of those magic books written by a TERF

caseythereader's review

dark emotional funny informative reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Deadnaming, Medical content, Medical trauma, Panic attacks/disorders, and Sexual content

Moderate: Acephobia/Arophobia, Alcoholism, Car accident, and Transphobia

ehmannky's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

An incredibly honest and beautiful memoir. It's just so lovely to see someone find themselves in a way that is so outside of the norm, even when their norm was different to begin with. One thing I liked that e shows that even in the most loving, nontraditional families, there are conflicts to coming out and pushing against the expectations that people have of you and how you are supposed to be. And there's just so much love and empathy for everyone in this book. It's just lovely all around. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Medical content, Transphobia, and Blood

Moderate: Sexual content, Vomit, Cancer, and Acephobia/Arophobia

imrereads's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

This is a brutslly honest memoir, and it was so refreshing. We follow Maia's journeynas e grows up and discovers eir identity as nonbinary and asexual. I love the art and thought it was wonderfully narrated. 

(Contains several HP/JKR references) 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Sexual content, Transphobia, and Blood

Moderate: Acephobia/Arophobia