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maiakobabe 's review for:
Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story
by Jacob Tobia
This is a beautiful, funny, insightful book full of truth and joy. Jacob Tobia was one of the first nonbinary superstars I discovered and started following on instagram when I began trying to answer my own question of "What does a nonbinary adult look like?" Despite loving their fashion, their feminism and their flirty photo captions for years, I didn't know even a fraction of their story. Jacob was born in 1991 in North Carolina to a loving, churchgoing family who were as supportive as they could be while still being pretty confused about their genderful child in a binary world. Jacob struggled through childhood bullying, came out as queer as a teen, wrote a college admittance essay about their first experience wearing high heels on campus and got into multiple Ivy League schools. From there, Jacob's ambition, activism and fashion only grew brighter and bolder, leading to nationally recognized fundraising projects for LGBTQ causes and to a trip to the White House during the Obama years. Amidst this wild success were periods of failure, fear, sorrow, and a lot of growth and self-discovery. I have been searching out and consuming queer coming age narratives for years; I didn't realize the extra layer of SEEN I would feel on reading an explicitly genderqueer journey. I'm so pleased that this book exists in the world, and so excited that soon my book can be shelved in the same section in a bookstore. Thank you, Jacob- I'm going to wearing more glitter going forward.