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Género Queer: una autobiografía by Maia Kobabe

75 reviews

purplepenning's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

This was exceptional — exceptionally personal and kind and gently paced and honest. A great example of how a graphic memoir can tell a complex story (and aren't all of our truest  stories complex) in a beautifully accessible way.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Medical content, Medical trauma, Dysphoria, Excrement, Blood, Vomit, Acephobia/Arophobia, Biphobia, Transphobia, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Sexual content and Alcohol

bookedandbusy's review against another edition

challenging hopeful reflective medium-paced

4.0

I enjoyed this one. I feel like this is a very important book, especially for younger people! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Vomit and Blood

there’s a lot of misgendering that happens throughout the story.

cozybookseller's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative sad tense

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Vomit, Dysphoria, and Blood

arlangrey17's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

Absolutely beautiful. I resonated with eir story so much. I can't wait to read this again. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria

Moderate: Deadnaming, Vomit, and Medical trauma

kylasmv15's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria

Moderate: Sexual content, Body shaming, Medical content, and Vomit

Minor: Homophobia, Alcohol, and Bullying

cemeterygay's review against another edition

3.0

While I did really enjoy the discussions of exploration of gender identity and specifically how much the author's experiences rang with my own, the way fandom discussions were had was deeply uncomfortable and quite frankly distracting. The casual positive mentions of Sam/Dean (incest) fics as well as RPF (real person fanfiction) and the intense fixation on gay men was incredibly distracting and hard to read.

I thought the art style was okay and I liked very specific scenes, specifically those related to the depiction of medical. 

I don't think I will pick this book back up again but I don't regret reading it. 

I wish the Harry Potter references and the fanfiction scenes were removed but everything else was great. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Blood, Misogyny, Medical trauma, and Bullying

Moderate: Sexual content and Vomit

CW: Casual mentions of incest fics and RPF fics, TERFisms, Harry Potter references, Graphic descriptions of gender dysphoria

emfass's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Alcoholism, Alcohol, Vomit, and Excrement

notartgarfunkel's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Dysphoria, and Medical trauma

Minor: Vomit

skudiklier's review against another edition

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Vomit, Medical trauma, Medical content, and Homophobia

Moderate: Transphobia, Bullying, and Sexism

wardenred's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

 I began to think of gender less as a scale and more as a landscape. Some people are born in the mountains, while others are born by the sea. Some people are happy to live in the place they were born, while others must make a journey to reach the climate in which they can flourish and grow. Between the ocean and the mountains is a wild forest. This is where I want to make my home. 

 

I think this is the first graphic memoir I've ever read, and I absolutely loved it. As an AFAB non-binary person, it made me feel incredibly seen. My experiences with the complicated thing that is gender and everything that surrounds it haven't been identical, but there are so many things in this graphic novel that are still familiar, from all the embarrassing physicality of it, to the deep unease of asking people to use my pronouns along with the deep unease of hearing the wrong ones, to constantly trying to find the right balance in a world that presents you with two types of boxes to sort yourself into—and none of them fits. 

 

It was strangely fun to see the common bits of cultural context the author and I share. All the slash fanfiction. Familiar bands. The mentions of NaNoWriMo. All of it made reading this memoir feel like sitting down for a chat with a friend. That's probably a big part of the reason I devoured it in a single evening. 

 

I should also mention the artwork: I found it lovely and unobtrusive. None of it was unpleasant to look at, except the several things that were supposed to be, none of it clashed with the writing, and none of it made me linger on it studying the details instead of turning the page to read on. That last one is part of the compliment. I think there are comics where you want the reader to pause and admire the art, and then there are the ones where you want the art to be just enough to keep them immersed in the story. This is clearly an example of the latter, and the art does its job beautifully. 

 

All in all, highly recommended to all my fellow genderqueer folx and to anyone who wants to gain a better understanding of what it can be like outside the gender binary. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Vomit