Gender Queer: A Memoir

Maia Kobabe is a nonbinary, queer author and illustrator from the Bay Area, California. Eir first full length book, GENDER QUEER: A MEMOIR, was published in May 2019. Maia's short comics have been published by The Nib and in many anthologies including THE SECRET LOVES OF GEEKS, FASTER THAN LIGHT Y'ALL, GOTHIC TALES OF HAUNTED LOVE, SHOUT OUT, ADVANCED DEATH SAVES and BE GAY, DO COMICS. Before setting out to work freelance full-time, e worked for over ten years in libraries. Eir work is heavily influenced by fairy tales, homesickness, and the search for identity.

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY -- This heartfelt graphic memoirrelates, with sometimes painful honesty, the experience of growing upnon-gender-conforming. From a very young age, Kobabe is unsure whether to claima lesbian/gay, bisexual, or even transgender identity: “I don't want to bea girl. I don't want to be a boy either. I just want to be myself.” Kobabecomes of age having to navigate expressions of identity such as clothing andhaircuts, with fraught attempts at romantic and sexual entanglements.Eventually, Kobabe's supportive sister concludes: “I think you're agenderless person.” (Kobabe: “She knew before I did.”)