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Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe

17 reviews

tiernanhunter's review against another edition

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funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.75

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aexileigh's review

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adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

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clarabooksit's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

Kobabe’s story of living with body and gender dysphoria and eir slow, often confusing journey to self-discovery is moving and important. So many people, especially younger folks, are going to benefit from seeing themselves and/or their friends/family in this book. For that alone, I think everyone should read this.

I will say, though, that I’m not sure who the intended audience is for this book. The art style and voice read very, very young but some of the content is very adult—nothing too explicit but there are frank, open discussions of sex and sexuality as well as some nudity. So, I’m going with teenagers? Maybe?

Aside from that, I enjoyed this graphic memoir. Kobabe’s humor, frankness, vulnerability and early 2000s nostalgia are spot on. I especially loved eir discussions with friends and family about gender and sexuality. It was also nice to see eir confusion. So many identity stories are about people struggling to get others to accept who they know they are but there are so few stories of people not really knowing who they are. I appreciated Kobabe’s uncertainty and how difficult it was for em to figure it all out.

I also liked the clean, easy-to-read art style. I do wish it had read more adult and I thought the narrative often felt pieced together, which didn’t flow well.

Overall, though, I’m really glad I read this. And I think you should, too.

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cozylifewithabby's review

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3.0

I read this book because it tops the most banned list. I am against banning books, and I don't think this book should be banned. I think that it could be really helpful to teens, young adults, or adults struggling with their identity or people in those persons' lives who want to understand them. There are many triggers in this book though so be aware of those if you are checking it out. I also think it is important to not that this is only one person's journey and people's experiences can be very different.

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nerdysread's review against another edition

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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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aegireads's review against another edition

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emotional informative lighthearted medium-paced

4.0

i wish the fandom stuff were cut down, it's pretty distracting.

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skudiklier's review

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emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

This was so nice! I started this thinking I would read bits and pieces over the course of the next week or two, but instead I read nearly the entire thing in one sitting. This would be great for anyone, but especially someone in the early stages of questioning their gender.

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