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Maia Kobabe
Memoir & Personal Growth
Maia Kobabe is an American cartoonist whose autobiographical graphic novel Gender Queer explores eir experiences of gender, sexuality, and self-identity.
Biography
Maia Kobabe, born in 1989, is an American cartoonist and the author of Gender Queer: A Memoir (2019). Kobabe uses e/em/eir pronouns and identifies as nonbinary and asexual. Eir work primarily explores identity, sexuality, anti-fascism, fairy tales, and homesickness.
Kobabe began Gender Queer as a way to explain eir nonbinary and asexual identity to family. The autobiographical graphic novel recounts adolescent crushes, questions about coming out to family and society, friendships connected through erotic gay fanfiction, and traumatic experiences with pap smears. Through these experiences, Kobabe traces eir developing understanding of self and offers readers a personal account of gender identity.
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Books by Maia Kobabe
Gender Queer
Gender Queer: A Memoir (2019) is an autobiographical graphic novel tracing Kobabe’s journey toward understanding eir nonbinary and asexual identity. Begun as an explanation for family, it explores adolescent crushes, coming out, friendship, and traumatic experiences with pap smears.