Gender queer :
Material type: TextPublication details: St. Louis : Lion Forge Comics, 2019Description: 240 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 21 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781549304002 (pbk.) :Genre/Form: Graphic novels. | General. | Graphic novels. DDC classification: 741.5 LOC classification: PN6738Summary: 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.Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Books | Main Library | GN .K754 2019 (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | Available | 32599 |
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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.