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Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe

14 reviews

felicityebhaslin's review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Transphobia, Acephobia/Arophobia, and Medical content

Minor: Transphobia, Deadnaming, Excrement, Cancer, Chronic illness, and Vomit

antijeffbozo_love2read's review

emotional funny reflective relaxing fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Blood, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Gore, Alcoholism, Misogyny, Medical content, Excrement, Transphobia, Drug use, Toxic friendship, Deadnaming, Body shaming, and Medical trauma

Minor: Chronic illness, Pregnancy, Vomit, and Cancer

Injury/gore is metaphorical and features a character impaled on a spike in a couple of different instances. It metaphorically represents emotional/physical pain and features some amount of blood, nothing else. Blood warning mainly applies to menstrual blood.

theintrovertsbooks's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria

Moderate: Medical trauma, Sexual content, Blood, and Medical content

Minor: Cancer, Pregnancy, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Vomit, Transphobia, and Deadnaming

annaofjesup's review against another edition

reflective medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Body shaming, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Bullying, Dysphoria, and Medical content

Minor: Alcohol, Cancer, Chronic illness, Pregnancy, and Transphobia

kirstenf's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria

Moderate: Sexual content, Medical trauma, Blood, and Body horror

Minor: Vomit, Outing, Transphobia, Sexism, Misogyny, and Cancer

anni_swanilda's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria, Toxic friendship, Medical content, Medical trauma, Blood, and Vomit

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Cancer and Transphobia

nerdysread's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring lighthearted reflective slow-paced

5.0

Thanks to NetGalley I had the occasion to read the deluxe edition. And honestly the introduction, the afterword and the extra made this perfect book into a better than Perfect book. I love it, one of my favourite

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Medical trauma

Moderate: Sexism

Minor: Cancer

toofondofbooks_'s review

emotional informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

This is a memoir of Maia Kobabe coming into eir own and figuring out that gender is not as straightforward as many people would like us to believe. The book is brutally honest and beautifully illustrated. I really enjoyed it and learned a lot of things that I wasn't privy to before reading. 

Supporting Maia and eir work is really important to me, because over the past week, this book was in the news, and not for reasons that I would want it to be. Republicans in Virginia decided to sue em, claiming that some "obscenity laws" have been broken. To find anything obscene about this book is to be completely ignorant, lacking in context or nuance, and to not understand that this is a BOOK FOR ADULTS. There are sensitive images within the book, but they aid in the storytelling which is the entire point of graphic novels. 

I talk about this because I'd like to shine light on this current issue and also I think books that are banned and challenged ESPECIALLY for bigot-ass-reasons should be read and reviewed even *harder.* 

This book is currently on Kindle Unlimited if you have it - if you are interested, give it a read, give it a review, and give it more exposure to its intended audience. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Sexual content, Transphobia, and Homophobia

Moderate: Cancer

Minor: Excrement and Misogyny

there is a "character" (a real person bc it's a memoir but i feel weird just saying 'a person' ) in this book who says some terfy things to Maia and I think that should be noted.

middumullu's review

emotional funny hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

3.5

really useful, i loved the illustrations and the author's honesty. there wasn't a strong conclusion to the book, but that kind of makes sense - life goes on and our ideas change. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria and Medical trauma

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Bullying and Cancer

medical trauma - in relation to pap smears sexual content - a several panels featuring genitals or characters having sex (mostly from other stories)

ayerite's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

Must read for anyone who wants a glimpse into the self-discovery journey of a non-binary person. Recommend by a gender-questioning friend as it they related very heavily to a lot fo the scenarios/themes.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Cancer and Self harm

Mentions of dysmorphia, negative self-talk