Category: Adults, Autobiography & Biographies, Political
Language: EnglishKeywords: Queer
Written by Maia Kobabe
Read by Maia Kobabe, Trini Alvarado, Stephen Graybill, Phoebe Kobabe, Jeremy Carlisle Parker
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged
Length: 1 hr and 58 mins
Release date: 05-07-24
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. Then e created Gender Queer. Maiaâs 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 identityâwhat it means and how to think about itâfor advocates, friends, and humans everywhere.
“Itâs also a great resource for those who identify as nonbinary or asexual as well as for those who know someone who identifies that way and wish to better understand.”âSLJ (starred review)
Length: 1 hr and 58 mins
Release date: 05-07-24
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. Then e created Gender Queer. Maiaâs 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 identityâwhat it means and how to think about itâfor advocates, friends, and humans everywhere.
“Itâs also a great resource for those who identify as nonbinary or asexual as well as for those who know someone who identifies that way and wish to better understand.”âSLJ (starred review)