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Gender Queer: Een Memoir by Maia Kobabe

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galacticvex's review against another edition

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challenging emotional hopeful inspiring fast-paced

3.75

big note off the top: I appreciate the writing style of this memoir, and that the audiobook was narrated by the author! it's always a treat when an author reads their own work.

I struggled with some of the terminology (specifically around
kink
) and concepts (specifically around topics like fanfiction). mostly due to it being substantially more graphic than I was anticipating, especially when it came to
sexual exploration as a youth and adult
and descriptions of
medical experiences
. all in all I think I would have benefitted from content warnings, or otherwise some more heads up in chapter names.

all that said I found myself often resonating the experiences explored, and generally appreciated learning more about the ones I didn't have first hand knowledge of. 

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justcallmeemily's review against another edition

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funny informative lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.0


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felicityebhaslin's review against another edition

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informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

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emotional funny reflective relaxing fast-paced

4.75


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theintrovertsbooks's review against another edition

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challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0


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annaofjesup's review against another edition

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reflective medium-paced

3.0


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kirstenf's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5


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anni_swanilda's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0


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nerdysread's review against another edition

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emotional informative inspiring lighthearted reflective slow-paced

5.0




Thanks to NetGalley I had the occasion to read the deluxe edition. And honestly the introduction, the afterword and the extra made this perfect book into a better than Perfect book. I love it, one of my favourite

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toofondofbooks_'s review against another edition

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emotional informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

This is a memoir of Maia Kobabe coming into eir own and figuring out that gender is not as straightforward as many people would like us to believe. The book is brutally honest and beautifully illustrated. I really enjoyed it and learned a lot of things that I wasn't privy to before reading. 

Supporting Maia and eir work is really important to me, because over the past week, this book was in the news, and not for reasons that I would want it to be. Republicans in Virginia decided to sue em, claiming that some "obscenity laws" have been broken. To find anything obscene about this book is to be completely ignorant, lacking in context or nuance, and to not understand that this is a BOOK FOR ADULTS. There are sensitive images within the book, but they aid in the storytelling which is the entire point of graphic novels. 

I talk about this because I'd like to shine light on this current issue and also I think books that are banned and challenged ESPECIALLY for bigot-ass-reasons should be read and reviewed even *harder.* 

This book is currently on Kindle Unlimited if you have it - if you are interested, give it a read, give it a review, and give it more exposure to its intended audience. 

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