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Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe

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rileykurch's review

emotional funny informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

This book made me very emotional and feel so very very seen.
I was waiting for the rain to stop and ended up picking up this book in the bookstore and devouring the entire thing. WOW!!!! it's been on my list forever, but I've only ever found it in hardcover and I struggle to convince myself to spend extra on hardcover graphic novels and the Austin Public Libraries haven't had it in stock online or in person EVER. Seriously, I think I was on the Ebook waitlist for over a year.
I have never felt so seen in a book????? A lot of this isn't relatable, and at the same time it all is??? Humans are so weird and Maia speaks so beautifully on everything e experiences. I am jealous of eir talents for putting words and pictures to an experience both em and I share.
Literally so beautiful. So stunning. So weird and specific and wonderful and this alongside finally finishing Taika Waititi's Next Goal Wins I am just so surrounded by trans* joy and excellence and wow!!!! All I can say is wow!!!!!

A must read if you love queer folks.

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heidipretzel's review against another edition

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reflective medium-paced

4.5

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nenaveenstra's review

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hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

3.75

This book was kind of all over the place in content, but the art style was pretty and I think it's important that books like these exist so queer kids don't feel so alone.

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theskyboi's review

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emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.0

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theintrovertsbooks's review against another edition

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challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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cartbark's review

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informative inspiring reflective

4.75

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wad3mil3sgarru2's review against another edition

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informative lighthearted reflective fast-paced

4.25

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aulman2's review

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fast-paced

5.0

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buttercat42's review against another edition

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fast-paced

2.0

Kobabe mentions a few times in the book that e was historically reluctant to share details of eir life and sadly, I think it shows. This would have felt more meaningful as a memoir if there was focus on the deeper meaning of a few important scenarios rather than just a general overview of eir entire life from birth to publishing.

The more I reflect on this book, the less I like it. While I don’t agree with book bans of any kind, as a queer person I don’t think it provides a particularly helpful or useful lens through which to examine sexuality and gender or the way they operate in society. I wouldn’t give it to a teen to read not because I think it’s inappropriate but because I don’t think it has anything substantial to say about queer identity.

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saracat's review

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challenging emotional informative reflective slow-paced

3.75

I greatly appreciated Kobabe sharing so much of eir story. And I think the graphic novel format really supports the telling of eir journey. I did struggle with the jumping around from topic to topic. Sometimes I could see the connection line from one thing to the next. But I couldn’t always. And found myself struggling to understand where different things fit within a timeline as a result. However, I do expect I’ll read this book again. And I feel sure I’ll follow and understand better now that I have a general idea of Kobabe’s story.

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