{"product_id":"gender-queer","title":"Gender Queer: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2020 ALA Alex Award Winner\u003c\/b\u003e | \u003cb\u003e2020 Stonewall -- Israel Fishman Non-fiction Award Honor Book\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"It's 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.\" \u003c\/b\u003e--\u003ci\u003eSchool Library Journal \u003c\/i\u003e(starred review)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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. \u003ci\u003eNow, Gender Queer\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStarted as a way to explain to eir family what it means to be nonbinary and asexual, \u003ci\u003eGender Queer\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"It's 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.\" -- SLJ (starred review)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMaia Kobabe\u003c\/strong\u003e is a nonbinary queer cartoonist, a kpop fan, a voracious reader, and a daydreamer. You can learn an astonishing number of intimate details about em in GENDER QUEER: A MEMOIR (America's most challenged book 2021-2023) and in eir short comics and writing published in \u003ci\u003eThe Nib\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNPR\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTime Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e. Maia's second book is BREATHE: JOURNEYS TO HEALTHY BINDING with Dr Sarah Peitzmeier and eir third book will be a middle grade coming of age comic written with Lucky Srikumar, due out from Scholastic Graphix in 2026. Before setting out to work freelance full-time, e worked for over ten years in libraries.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Maia Kobabe","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46712128307485,"sku":"9781549304002","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9781549304002.jpg?v=1779549423","url":"https:\/\/staging.anovelideaphilly.com\/products\/gender-queer","provider":"A Novel Idea on Passyunk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}