Gender Queer

How do you explain to someone what you can only sense? What you feel so intensely yet can never grasp? How do you tell the people you love that you are someone else, perceive yourself differently, desire differently? In GENDER QUEER, Maia Kobabe has created a sensitive and radically empathetic narrative about a lifelong search for self. In the 1990s, Maia Kobabe is a somewhat stubborn teenager who encounters questions and resistance at every turn. Secret crushes on classmates, friendships, family crises, school stress - the typical madness of puberty. But Maia struggles far more than her peers. As a girl, Maia feels uncomfortable and often out of place. But she doesn't want to be a boy either, at least not entirely. Can you be neither one nor the other and still be happy? GENDER QUEER is one of the most successful comic autobiographies in recent years, a groundbreaking comic in which Maia Kobabe not only chronicles her own story and identity formation but also creates an immensely important guide for young people searching for themselves and their place in the world.