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Gender Queer A Memoir

Maia Kobabe

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 autob...

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The book told the story of a woman who identified as non-binary and described her experience with abuse and how she couldn't read until she was 12 years old. The book ends with the woman coming out to her middle school class, which the speaker found to be unnecessary.

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Yeah, it's a story of how this this this woman is not she says she's non-binary, but it's an abuse story.

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The book told the story of a woman who identified as non-binary and described her experience with abuse and how she couldn't read until she was 12 years old. The book ends with the woman coming out to her middle school class, which the speaker found to be unnecessary.

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Yeah, it's a story of how this this this woman is not she says she's non-binary, but it's an abuse story.

Yeah, couldn't read till she was 12.

Yep. She had to use old crusted pads with blood flaking off and she smelled so bad because of it, the counselor called her in and said, you have a hygiene problem.

Well, and the book ends like the most triumphant part of the book is when she's deciding that she's going to come out to her middle school class and like tell all of the her students that she's which is non-binary, which is like, why do we need to? Why does anyone need to do that?

Why these people want to be about around children so much is odd. It's odd and sort of distressing.

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