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Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe

36 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

saraellenme's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Deadnaming and Acephobia/Arophobia

lisacanteven's review

hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.5

This graphic novel gave me so much to think about. I went into it without any expectations other than it has been banned, so I know the stupid conservatives hate it. Honestly that's always a plus to me. I found myself introspectively reading it; there was a lot more identifying going on than I expected. I really, really appreciate how raw, real, and relatable Maia was with this book. People all over the world can identify with eir feelings, and they probably don't even know it yet. If someone doesn't identify with any of Maia's feelings, they probably know someone who does. 

*1/2-1 star off for the multiple Harry Potter references. I understand that Maia is trans, so e is someone who should be able to discuss HP if ey want. However it is still triggering, and I just wish we could erase all mentions everywhere by everyone since JKR keeps furthering her harmful anti-trans views and desire for anti-trans regulations passed everywhere. I think everyone, including all trans people, should reevaluate what about JKR is so valuable to them despite the hurt and harm she causes. I was hoping that since I bought the new special edition, all HP references would have been edited out. Mentioning HP instead of keeping it vague adds nothing positive to the story. It just adds triggering content.*

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Content Warnings

Minor: Chronic illness, Deadnaming, Dysphoria, Homophobia, Transphobia, Sexual content, Biphobia, Acephobia/Arophobia, and Sexism

Shipping the brothers in Supernatural was a weird choice.

bookedbymadeline's review

fast-paced

4.0

This is such an important book for people to read to see non-binary and asexual rep! I learned quite a bit and felt I understood asexuality and NBs better. I enjoyed the art style but felt the story jumped all over the place which led to some whiplash. I also didn’t love the numerous Harry Potter references-I understand that the series was an important part of eir’s childhood and Led to a love of reading but it felt excessive. E also talked about a ship between Sam and Dean (which is incest btw?!) which felt icky. Overall I’d recommend it and I love that e can hopefully give words and understanding to other kids out there that may struggle with gender identity! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria, Acephobia/Arophobia, Body horror, Sexual content, and Transphobia

wanderlust_romance's review against another edition

emotional funny informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

What a joy this was to read. I borrowed a copy of this from my library and am very much considering purchasing a copy to eventually share with my child (they’re too young for some of the content right now). Gender Queer is a graphic novel memoir that follows Maia Kobabe’s (e/em/eir pronouns) deeply personal exploration of eir gender identity. The illustrations are so wonderfully done. It adds another layer of humor and emotion to the accompanying text that shares Kobabe’s personal narrative. Gender Queer is a prime example of the importance of gender affirming care. Beyond just the need for affirming healthcare, Kobabe’s family and friends are depicted in this memoir as unconditionally supportive, thoughtful, caring, and perhaps most importantly - they listen with love and communicate with honesty surrounding the gender and sexuality questions / frustrations Kobabe expresses. E also delves into the complexities of asexuality - what it means, how it impacts relationships, and how it is also a spectrum e explored.

If you haven’t read this, I would absolutely recommend. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Medical trauma

Minor: Acephobia/Arophobia

theskyboi's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Dysphoria, Homophobia, Medical content, Acephobia/Arophobia, Body shaming, Blood, Bullying, Lesbophobia, Sexual content, Medical trauma, and Toxic friendship

gcrkl's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Dysphoria, Acephobia/Arophobia, Medical trauma, and Blood

rubadubindabathtub's review against another edition

informative reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Vomit

Minor: Excrement, Biphobia, Acephobia/Arophobia, Death, and Transphobia

mxpringle's review

informative inspiring fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Homophobia, Sexual content, Acephobia/Arophobia, Transphobia, and Sexism

meremeth's review

reflective fast-paced

2.5

This memoir suffered from the usual issues a young persons memoir usually does, it comes across as a list of things happening with little to no reflection on them. If you are unaware of the experience of gender dysphoria and asexuality I could see you learning from this. But otherwise, I don't see much to write home about, let alone ban (!?!?) 
I'm looking forward to more memoirs from trans and non binary people, hopefully this book and Elliot Page's Pageboy pave the way.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Transphobia and Acephobia/Arophobia

Contains some uncomfortable Cervical cancer screening scenes.