2020 ALA Alex Award Winner 2020 Stonewall — Israel Fishman Non-fiction Award Honor Book 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. "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)
