#gender queer: a memoir

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On Book Bans 📚

The 2023 Banned Books Update is out from PEN America, and you should definitely check it out. One data point that leapt out to me: 

“Overwhelmingly, book banners continue to target stories by and about people of color and LGBTQ+ individuals. In this six-month period, 30% of the unique titles banned are books about race, racism, or feature characters of color. Meanwhile, 26% of unique titles banned have LGBTQ+ characters or themes.“

And what can you do about it? This thread from Kelly Jensen has plenty of resources. Here is a Book Riot round-up of anti-censorship groups across America, and here is a post on how to fight book bans. 

Kelly Jensen on Twitter is a great follow for anti-book-ban resources and efforts, as is Florida Freedom to Read. 

TL;DR -- the best way to help is to get involved locally: 

attend school board meetings

keep up with what your local library is up to

write to your local representatives

call out book ban attempts and hate groups

donate to groups fighting book bans

and of course, don’t forget to vote

tell others about what is happening -- don’t let this fly under the radar

#banned books #gender queer: a memoir #a court of mist and fury #the bluest eye #this book is gay #flamer #pen america #banned books week

[renaroo]

For the last two years, one graphic novel has been the source of controversy and censorship in the United States of America. Young audiences all over have been gravitating toward the deeply personal and frank discussions of self and exploration that is Maia Kobabe's Gender Queer: A Memoir.

Join Behind the Yellow Boxes as Steph and Brook explore the controversial graphic novel, return to their opinions on censorship and book bans, and provide a brief overview of the story within.

For more information about current book bans as well as advice on what you can do to battle censorship in your community, visit bit.ly/GenderQueerbans

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[iampancakeee]

I read "Gender Queer: A Memoir" by Maia Kobabe today and I nearly cried like twice (but I held my tears because I was in public lol)

I related so much to most of eir experiences. It's crazy how e was able to put them into words so perfectly when I've been struggling for months, if not years, to say the same thing.

I plan to actually buy the book when I have money so I can have it in my hands because it's just that special.

Anyways here are my favourite panels, the ones I related to the most :)

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[acesincomics]

New from the American Library Association: Gender Queer, the graphic memoir by aromantic asexual non-binary creator Maia Kobabe @redgoldsparks, remains the most challenged book in the United States for two years in a row.

2022 also saw unprecedented attempts to ban library books across the U.S. Today’s report includes the Top 13 Most Challenged Books of 2022, which makes clear what books are being targeted: books by and about LGBTQIA+ and Black people. -American Library Association

Gender Queer has been challenged 151 times, up from the previous year. Read the full report by the ALA here.

It continues to be ever important that asexual and aromantic perspectives are included in discussing book bans, censorship, and the increasing attacks against the LGBTQIA+ community more broadly.

A fairly extensive Twitter thread about Gender Queer from last year, in case you missed it:

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“Some people are born in the mountains, while others are born by the sea. Some people are happy to live in the place they were born, while others must make a journey to reach the climate in which they can flourish and grow. Between the ocean and the mountains is a wild forest. That is where I want to make my home.”

-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer: A Memoir

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[chronic-pessimistic]

I woke up today like 2 times and fell asleep listening and audio from my boyfriend. Now I’m in the bus going to the pool and then the library to read comics and books, a few hours of silence!!! I really enjoy being in a quiet place.

Would you please recommend me some books/comics?

I read Lore Olympus, Solitaire, Heartstopper(all), this winter, In, Gender queer: a memoir, Laura Dean keeps breaking up with me, skim, through the woods, milk and honey, the sculptor, dragonslippers and some more.

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[katesharmasheart]

books i read in 2022 ♡ Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe

“I just want to be myself.”

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From Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe

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[aficionliteraria]

Gender Queer: A Memoir por Maia Kobabe (2019)

Sinopsis

Gender Queer: A Memoir es una memoria gráfica de 2019 escrita e ilustrada por Maia Kobabe. Cuenta el viaje de Kobabe desde la adolescencia hasta la edad adulta y la exploración de la identidad de género y la sexualidad, identificándose finalmente como fuera del binario de género.

Comentario

Me encantó como Maia Kobabe narra su vida desde la infancia hasta la adultez. Nos muestra su percepción y vivencias en relación a la identidad, el género, la sexualidad y su lugar en el mundo.

Considero que todo el mundo debería leerlo. Este libro puede ayudar a que  muchas personas queer se sientan representadas y les demuestre que no están solas. De la misma manera a que personas no queer entiendan lo difícil que es vivir en el mundo cuando se es diferente a las normas establecidas por la sociedad. 

Lo amé y lo recomiendo 1,000,000,000,000,000%.

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[redgoldsparks]

Transcript below the cut.

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Panel 1: For the second year in a row, Gender Queer was the most challenged book in the US, reported the American Library Association.

Panel 2: It’s been a weird two years. Number of unique titles challenged in the US by year. 2000: 378 titles. 2005: 259 titles. 2010: 262 titles. 2015: 190 titles. 2020: 223 titles. 2021: 1858 titles. 2022: 2571 titles.

Panel 3: It’s been a hard two years. The ACLU is tracking 469 anti-LGBTQ bills in the US.

Panel 4: Usually I prefer to wait until something is over before I write about it, so I have time to reflect. But this experience has not ended.

Panel 5: It has only gotten louder. (A series of screen shoots of news headlines about Gender Queer, book challenges and an obscenity lawsuit against the book being dismissed in the state of Virginia).

Panel 6: I’m constantly wondering, “When should I speak and when should I let the book speak for itself?”

Panel 7: I remember when I realized that the previous most challenged book spent five years in the top five.

2020- Melissa by Alex Gino at #1 2019- Melissa by Alex Gino at #1 2018- Melissa by Alex Gino at #1 2017- Melissa by Alex Gino at #5 2016- Melissa by Alex Gino at #3

Panel 8: Oh, I think I can take my time figuring out how to respond. I think I’m in this for the long haul...

Panel 9: Ways to support libraries and challenged authors: Check out and read challenged books. Vote for and attend library board and school board meetings. Report censorship to the ALA and PEN America. Vote to fund libraries. Speak up against legislation limiting the teaching of queer history, sex ed, abortion and the history of racism in the US.

Panel 10: Most challenged books of 2022:

1. Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe

2. All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M Johnson

3. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

4. Flamer by Mike Curato

5. (tie) Looking For Alaska by John Green

5. (tie) The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

7. Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison

8. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

9. Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Perez

10. (tie) A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J Maas

10. (tie) Crank by Ellen Hopkins

10. (tie) Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews

10. (tie) This Book is Gay by Juno Dawson

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[acesincomics]

Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe @redgoldsparks is included in this incredible list of essential queer comics!

How many have you read?

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Around the Tubes

Some comic news and reviews from around the web to start the day #comics #comicbooks

It’s one of two new comic book days! What are you all getting? What are you excited for? Sound off in the comments below! While you decided on that, here’s some comic news and reviews from around the web. The Beat – A Year of Free Comics: Read the complete ALL OF US ARE DEAD for free – Free comics! CBLDF – WATCH NOW! Gender Queer in Virginia Beach: A Case Study – Interesting. Kotaku – The Best…

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Review: Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe

Review: Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe

Book 5 of my Banned Books Challenge 2022 Book 1: All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brandon Kiely Book 2: Dear Martin by Nic Stone Book 3: Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan Book 4: Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas Quick review for a quick read. So I definitely find myself struggling to reflect on a book that I respect the heck out of and enjoyed reading from as a whole in the aftermath. I…

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Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe

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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 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.

Mod opinion: I've read this one and I enjoyed it.

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