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thehappybookwyrm's review against another edition
An interesting read. I think this is probably the closest story I've read to my own experience of gender and sexuality.
pandaspages's review
5.0
I’m so glad this book popped up on my radar.
Maia’s (who uses the spivak pronouns e/em/eir) writing is spectacular and the graphics are out of this world.
This memoir will be a comfort to those who don’t feel that the body they have aligns with who they are. Maia’s family and friends for the most part were supportive of em and it appeared that they did their best to understand how em felt.
One of the most memorable moments for me in this graphic novel occurs on page 71. You have to spin your device/the page to read the words on that page and it like I was spiraling as I was twisting my device. It felt like a direct representation of how Maia may have been feeling at that moment. At the moment that e was trying to figure out how e identified.
Another memorable moment for me was seeing the graphic of how Maia felt after the first time e had a pap smear. I remember having a visceral reaction to it. I immediately had the thought of how difficult it must have been for Maia after that actual appointment if just the visual representation of how e felt caused me feel that way.
I recommend reading this if you you:
-are struggling with your gender identity or sexuality
-you want to learn more about being queer and/or non binary
-you want to learn more about being an ally
Gender Queer is one of the most challenged books in the United States right now. Reading it can literally save lives of queer youth.
Maia’s (who uses the spivak pronouns e/em/eir) writing is spectacular and the graphics are out of this world.
This memoir will be a comfort to those who don’t feel that the body they have aligns with who they are. Maia’s family and friends for the most part were supportive of em and it appeared that they did their best to understand how em felt.
One of the most memorable moments for me in this graphic novel occurs on page 71. You have to spin your device/the page to read the words on that page and it like I was spiraling as I was twisting my device. It felt like a direct representation of how Maia may have been feeling at that moment. At the moment that e was trying to figure out how e identified.
Another memorable moment for me was seeing the graphic of how Maia felt after the first time e had a pap smear. I remember having a visceral reaction to it. I immediately had the thought of how difficult it must have been for Maia after that actual appointment if just the visual representation of how e felt caused me feel that way.
I recommend reading this if you you:
-are struggling with your gender identity or sexuality
-you want to learn more about being queer and/or non binary
-you want to learn more about being an ally
Gender Queer is one of the most challenged books in the United States right now. Reading it can literally save lives of queer youth.
leafblade's review against another edition
4.0
I recieved a copy of this book via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
The first time Gender queer got published, I missed the NetGalley archive date and didn't get a chance to read it even though I had been approved for it, and I've been beating myself up over it since. I'm so glad they came with a deluxe edition because I couldn't have gone without this book for much longer tbh.
This is exactly what it promised to be: a memoir about the author's relationship with gender. I gravitate towards a lot of the stuff e said here, from gender feelings to sexuality feelings to the fear of doctor's appointments. I just got out of Loveless by Alice Oseman last night, and I'm queer myself, so the lesser known queer identities feels are big on my right now lol. Pardon me if I don't make sense.
On the technical part: the drawings are beautiful, clear and expressive. When the author said e has a masters on comics I was lowkey glad because if not, e was probably a comic wizard. The story flows perfectly and seamlessly from childhood to teenage years to college and beyond. The colors were perfect, the text read alright and there wasn't a lot of info dumping on queer issues, as there tends to be in stories like this. Which is fine, but the author finds a more organic way of weaving them throughout the whole book.
Also eir family looks so cool I'm jealous my mom is literally on online mass rn
The first time Gender queer got published, I missed the NetGalley archive date and didn't get a chance to read it even though I had been approved for it, and I've been beating myself up over it since. I'm so glad they came with a deluxe edition because I couldn't have gone without this book for much longer tbh.
This is exactly what it promised to be: a memoir about the author's relationship with gender. I gravitate towards a lot of the stuff e said here, from gender feelings to sexuality feelings to the fear of doctor's appointments. I just got out of Loveless by Alice Oseman last night, and I'm queer myself, so the lesser known queer identities feels are big on my right now lol. Pardon me if I don't make sense.
On the technical part: the drawings are beautiful, clear and expressive. When the author said e has a masters on comics I was lowkey glad because if not, e was probably a comic wizard. The story flows perfectly and seamlessly from childhood to teenage years to college and beyond. The colors were perfect, the text read alright and there wasn't a lot of info dumping on queer issues, as there tends to be in stories like this. Which is fine, but the author finds a more organic way of weaving them throughout the whole book.
Also eir family looks so cool I'm jealous my mom is literally on online mass rn
giannanm's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
reflective
fast-paced
5.0
This was a very informative and reflective book. It really makes you think about your own gender and sexuality, even if you are straight and cisgender. As a cisgender woman who has never really known many nonbinary people, this book provides so much clarity to the feelings and troubles nonbinary people go through from childhood to adulthood. I feel like this book would make people more empathetic, and I would recommend anyone to read this.
algaemarina's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
haf666ia's review against another edition
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
I liked the art style, I appreciated Kobabe’s honesty and vulnerability. I don’t think it’s appropriate to give a star review other than 5/5 for this because it’s part of eir life story, I can’t review someone’s life so 5/5 for sharing so openly to the world. I enjoyed reading this, however it felt discombobulated and would shift back and forth between timelines in a confusing way, and the ending felt abrupt, I was so confused when that was the last page it felt like it ended mid sentence. But overall I enjoyed reading this, I’ve never read a graphic novel memoir, it’s a very cool genre. I feel like I learned things that I’m not exposed to so I am grateful for that. It’s wrong that this book is banned, this would be life changing/affirming for so many people I’m sure, but thanks as always to the conservatives who work to ban books because every time I learn of a banned book it makes me want to read it-which is how I learned about this one!
jazin95's review against another edition
informative
medium-paced
4.75
This was a good read. The art style was great and worked so well for memoir.