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Género Queer: Una autobiografía by Maia Kobabe

16 reviews

strawberrytheauthor's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring fast-paced

5.0

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It is an autobiographical comic about Maia Kobabe’s gender identity. I understand why it has been such a challenged book because some of the scenes are very graphic, but I think it has an important purpose and message. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria, Medical trauma, Excrement, Vomit, Sexual content, Medical content, Body horror, and Blood

Minor: Bullying

samflowerv6's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria and Excrement

caitlinemccann's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, and Dysphoria

Moderate: Sexual content, Panic attacks/disorders, and Homophobia

Minor: Vomit and Excrement

bashsbooks's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring fast-paced

4.25

I applaud Kobabe for being willing to share eir gender journey and identity with a country and a world that is currently saying they don't want to hear it. I see why this book has been banned so much, and it makes me incredibly sad, because e's experience is so relatable in many ways - from the discomfort of being labeled as a girl and separated from the boys, to the obsession with queer fic that makes you worry you're fetishizing people until you realize you're one of them, to the fear of the pap smear, and definitely to the reactions of the cis women who love you and fear you're suffering from internalized misogyny.

That said, Gender Queer does feel rushed and incomplete in places. Some of the transitions are blunt and awkward, and some of the story feels glossed over or pressed for time (specifically, when e goes into the biological explanations for eir gender - that is a lot of info, and fast). I wish it had been longer, more thorough, maybe multiple volumes, though I understand that Kobabe may not want to share that much.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Dysphoria, Excrement, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Vomit

Moderate: Cursing, Sexual content, and Transphobia

-Misgendering (mostly accidental) -Most of the blood is menstrual blood -Note that because this is a graphic novel, everything listed here is visually depicted.

moose_a_million's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Blood

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Vomit and Excrement

rickireadss's review against another edition

5.0

this is my second memoir, and i am officially convinced i need to read more!! i loved every second of this and am so happy i read this one. while i cannot connect to the feeling's maia experienced in eir adolescence and young adulthood, i found it very informative! 100% recommend this one, especially if you are nonbinary and/or asexual and want to connect to someone who struggled with eir gender identity and sexuality growing up!!

⚠️: dysphoria, medical trauma, blood, medical content, transphobia, homophobia, deadnaming, vomit, excrement, acephobia/arophobia 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria, Medical trauma, and Medical content

Moderate: Acephobia/Arophobia, Deadnaming, Transphobia, and Homophobia

Minor: Blood, Excrement, and Vomit

rustmaiden's review against another edition

informative reflective fast-paced

4.0

when i first heard about this book i wasn't immediately interested, but given all of the controversy in the book world with bans and challenges i felt like i needed to read it just to see what all the fuss was about. this book deepened my understanding of pronoun choice, especially those that seem 'outside the norm' (i.e. she, he, they). if anything, reading the book has moved me from a position of neutrality on the title to one of strong support. this is an important work to have available for those who need the ability to see themselves in a piece of work and for those who are seeking to better understand the inner lives of others. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Excrement, Blood, and Vomit

grayreadsmanga's review against another edition

informative reflective slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria

Moderate: Biphobia, Transphobia, Blood, and Sexual content

Minor: Excrement and Outing

demo's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Dysphoria, and Transphobia

Moderate: Medical trauma, Blood, and Acephobia/Arophobia

Minor: Excrement

toofondofbooks_'s review against another edition

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Sexual content, Transphobia, and Homophobia

Moderate: Cancer

Minor: Excrement and Misogyny

there is a "character" (a real person bc it's a memoir but i feel weird just saying 'a person' ) in this book who says some terfy things to Maia and I think that should be noted.