Gender queer

In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns,

thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical

comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable

with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia's intensely

cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the

mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come

out to family and society, bonding with friends over erotic gay fanfiction, and

facing the trauma and fundamental violation of pap smears. Started as a way to

explain to eir family what it means to be nonbinary and asexual, Gender Queer is

more than a personal story: it is a useful and touching guide on gender

identity-what it means and how to think about it-for advocates,

friends, and humans everywhere.