TY - BOOK AU - Kobabe,Maia AU - Kobabe,Phoebe ED - Small Press Expo Collection (Library of Congress) TI - Gender queer: a memoir SN - 9781549304002 AV - Comic Book 18610 U1 - 306.760835 23 KW - Kobabe, Maia KW - Kobabe, Maia. KW - Gender-nonconforming people KW - United States KW - Biography KW - Comic books, strips, etc KW - Asexual people KW - Sexual minority youth KW - Sexual minorities KW - Asexuality (Sexual orientation) KW - Gender identity KW - Coming out (Sexual orientation) KW - Graphic novels KW - fast KW - Trans Lives KW - Young adult literature KW - Autobiographical comics KW - Autobiographies KW - Comics (Graphic works) KW - Nonfiction comics KW - gsafd KW - lcgft KW - Genderqueer comics N2 - "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."--Amazon ER -