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A review by anjalisudarsan
Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe
4.0
I picked this book up out of curiosity, wondering why a graphic novel memoir would get banned and create so many ruffled feathers. Now I think the people who have issues with this book are kinda dumb, because this is just the author's personal life. It also gave me a better picture of how one grapples with gender, and the experience one goes through to understanding that they are non-binary.
I don't think reading about LGBT+ is going to magically influence any child, because if that were the case, there would be zero LGBT-oriented people in the countries where it's a criminal offence today (yet, there are lol). Be it the Victorian eras, or the places where it's criminalised, there continue to be people of different sexualities and genders, so I think it's better to know what they're going through and empathise than hate and act stupid. Really.
I don't think reading about LGBT+ is going to magically influence any child, because if that were the case, there would be zero LGBT-oriented people in the countries where it's a criminal offence today (yet, there are lol). Be it the Victorian eras, or the places where it's criminalised, there continue to be people of different sexualities and genders, so I think it's better to know what they're going through and empathise than hate and act stupid. Really.