Gender Queer: A Memoir - Maia Kobabe
A memoir of growing up female from birth, but never understanding what it's like to be a girl. Wanting to be a boy, sort of, but not being romantically inclined. Asexual, but interested in slash fiction. Feeling like your body is wrong somehow and not fitting in socially. Not knowing what to wear and seeing no representation or models of what you think you might be. Kobabe's elegant lines, evocative of Erika Moen's art, are simple and clean. The panels are arrnaged with a sure and confident hand. I bought this for two reasons (other than a general interest in both graphic novels and gender studies): one, because it was banned by bigots, and two, because I thought it might be instructive or appealing or my step-daughter, who might have some nonbinary traits. In any case, this is an honest, poignant story of questioning and learning to carve out your own identity, written and drawn very well. [4.5]
