Gender Queer is a graphic novel written by Maia Kobabe a non-binary author who uses e/em/eir pronouns. It annoys me when news articles point out a non-binary person’s pronouns like it should be this grand reveal, so please know I am not putting them here because of that. I just love them. I use they/them pronouns, and those work for me. But e/em/eir pronouns are so awesome. Honestly, I wouldn’t mind going by both. But I digress. 

 

Gender Queer is a memoir about Maia’s journey with eir queerness, asexuality, and gender identity. I related to so much of it. E is pretty frank about life and the human body including gender dysphoria and sexuality, so of course, the book has been reviewed bombed by very intolerant people. Reading their hate-filled comments invalidating this person’s journey was sad. But yeah, if you give this to a younger reader you may have to have some conversations. But if you are giving this to a younger reader you probably have a reason for doing so and you should have some conversations anyway. 

 

I borrowed this book from hoopla and ended up finishing it in one sitting. I fell in love and went to add it to my shipping cart - an amazing use holiday gift card. This is a must for my self, and I really want to support the artist. But seeing all the hateful comments really sucked.