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Género Queer: una autobiografía by Maia Kobabe

78 reviews

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

spinesinaline's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

This is a very personal story as Kobabe traces eir life from childhood and eir first understanding of and struggles with gender through to the present. While it is personal, Kobabe offers definitions and resources as e come across them and I’m sure eir gender journey would not be entirely unfamiliar with others who have or are currently going through similar explorations.

There are humorous moments interspersed with touching ones, and while I would’ve liked more of a resolution for the book (not that I’m expecting the author to have a final endpoint of eir gender), it was a very enjoyable and informative book to explore some aspects of gender and sexuality through one person’s experiences. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content and Medical trauma

Moderate: Sexual content and Transphobia

Minor: Blood and Vomit

ehmannky's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

An incredibly honest and beautiful memoir. It's just so lovely to see someone find themselves in a way that is so outside of the norm, even when their norm was different to begin with. One thing I liked that e shows that even in the most loving, nontraditional families, there are conflicts to coming out and pushing against the expectations that people have of you and how you are supposed to be. And there's just so much love and empathy for everyone in this book. It's just lovely all around. 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Sexual content, Vomit, Cancer, and Acephobia/Arophobia

berodatheelf's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

nyoom's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad fast-paced

0.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Blood, Body shaming, Cancer, Cursing, Deadnaming, Excrement, Grief, Homophobia, Incest, Medical content, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, Self harm, Sexual content, Transphobia, Vomit, and Sexual violence

shewantsthediction's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content and Vomit