Maia Kobabe

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.

A graphic guide to chest binding with real-life stories and research-backed advice from bestselling Gender Queer author Maia Kobabe and University of Michigan professor Sarah Peitzmeier. Breathe arose from the need for an evidence-based resource for folks considering chest binding as gender-affirming care. Its original form was a 32-page digital-only 'zine, but Peitzmeier and Kobabe saw potential for reaching a wider audience with an expanded version with more art and more exploration of what the research really shows about binding, designed to be easily readable as a printed book. This is the result. To create Breathe, Peitzmeier and her research team interviewed many people of different ages and backgrounds about their journeys with binding, and then she and Kobabe combined excerpts from those interviews with evidence-based resources on binding into this extremely accessible book. The result is both a practical resource for trans and nonbinary folks and an engaging and perspective-broadening read for anyone interested in what it means to be on a journey of expressing one's gender in ways that are joyful, healthy, and affirming.

Una autobiografía útil y conmovedora sobre la identidad de género y todo lo que conlleva. Maia Kobabe narra en esta catártica autobiografía lo que significa ser no binario y asexual. El viaje hasta descubrir su verdadera identidad en el que se relata la confusión de los amores adolescentes, la lucha por salir del armario, los amigos que hizo escribiendo fanfiction gay o el trauma que le supone ir al ginecólogo. Género Queer es más que su historia, es una guía imprescindible sobre género para aliados, amigos y humanos de cualquier parte. Maia Kobabe se graduó en la especialidad de cómic en el California College of the Arts. Con Género Queer ha Ganado un Alex Award, el Stonewall Book Award y ha sido nominada a otros premios. Maia es no binaria, queer y utiliza el pronombre e.