The release date for the English version of 'Gender Queer: A Memoir' by
Maia Kobabe is May 2019. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Maia Kobabe, who goes by the pronouns e/em/eir, believed in 2014 that writing an autobiographical comic about reading statistics would be her last. That was the only thing about them that, at the time, I felt comfortable having outsiders know. Gender Queer is here to stay. The path of self-identity that Maia describes in her very therapeutic autobiography encompasses the embarrassment and perplexity of teenage romances, struggling with how to come out to family and society, connecting with friends via sensual gay fanfiction, and dealing with the horror of pap smears. Gender Queer is more than just a personal narrative; it's a helpful and insightful manual on gender identity—what it means and how to think about it—for activists, friends, and people worldwide. It began as a method for the author to explain to their family what it means to be nonbinary and asexual.