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And What Comes After Bans?

Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe

September 22, 2023 by Jake Leave a Comment

Read as part of CBR15bingo: gender and banned. Maia Kobabe is a non-binary writer whose book Gender Queer has been banned at many schools and libraries across the country.  It almost made perfect sense that when I saw I had to read a banned book on gender for this challenge, I’d get to Maia Kobabe’s work. Maia’s book seems to have been the spark that ignited the fires of book banning in Florida. I will not argue that most Americans have a complex understanding of gender. […]

Filed Under: Featured, Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: Banned, cbr15bingo, gender, Gender Queer, graphic novels, LGBTQIA, Maia Kobabe

Jake's CBR15 Review No:105 · Genres: Featured, Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: Banned, cbr15bingo, gender, Gender Queer, graphic novels, LGBTQIA, Maia Kobabe ·
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Banned Graphic Novels #CannonBookClub

#CannonBookClub October Book Club Announcement

July 27, 2023 by faintingviolet 2 Comments

Banned Graphic Novel Book Club Discussion Now Open – Join us today for the discussion! Last year when we decided to have a Banned Books Book Club the timing felt right – it was the 40th anniversary of the creation of Banned Books Week and nationally we were seeing an uptick in challenges against books for a variety of reasons. The uptick turned out to be a tidal wave unprecedented since ALA started keeping statistics – 2022 had the highest number of challenges ever and […]

Filed Under: Book Club, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, News from MsWas Tagged With: Banned and Challenged, banned books week, CannonBookClub, graphic memoir, Graphic Novel, Jerry Craft, Jillian Tamaki, Maia Kobabe, Mariko Tamaki

Genres: Book Club, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, News from MsWas · Tags: Banned and Challenged, banned books week, CannonBookClub, graphic memoir, Graphic Novel, Jerry Craft, Jillian Tamaki, Maia Kobabe, Mariko Tamaki ·
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Another five star review for this wonderful graphic memoir.

Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe

April 14, 2020 by narfna 3 Comments

Note: We reached back to CBR12 to feature this review of Maia Kobabe’s Gender Queer. This year there is a renewed push to restrict access to books that reference race, gender, and sexuality. Kobabe wrote and illustrated an op-ed in the Washington Post on the need for queer kids to have access to queer books. In addition, eir was a guest on the Washington Post podcast, Please Go On. I have a lot that I want to say about this memoir, but I can’t figure out how to […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #memoir, coming-of-age, Gender identity, Gender Queer, Graphic Novel, graphic novels, Maia Kobabe, narfna, read harder challenge 2020, Sexuality

narfna's CBR12 Review No:46 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Non-Fiction · Tags: #memoir, coming-of-age, Gender identity, Gender Queer, Graphic Novel, graphic novels, Maia Kobabe, narfna, read harder challenge 2020, Sexuality ·
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“Between the ocean and the mountains is a wild forest. That is where I want to make my home.” (CBR11 Bingo)

Gender Queer: a Memoir by Maia Kobabe

July 21, 2019 by faintingviolet 2 Comments

Back in March Emmalita read and reviewed Gender Queer: a Memoir by Maia Kobabe and it put this book onto my radar where it previously hadn’t been. I had been quietly on the lookout for Cannonballer reviews of books by or about non-binary people to help fulfill a Read Harder challenge, and while I have only read a few books by transgender authors (that I’m aware of) I had likely read none by non-binary authors (I may have, I’ve not been great about tracking that […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: asexuality, cbr11bingo, faintingviolet, Gender Queer, genderqueer, graphic memoir, Graphic Novel, Maia Kobabe, Rainbow Flag, read harder challenge

faintingviolet's CBR11 Review No:34 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: asexuality, cbr11bingo, faintingviolet, Gender Queer, genderqueer, graphic memoir, Graphic Novel, Maia Kobabe, Rainbow Flag, read harder challenge ·
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Between the Oceans and the Mountains is a Wild Forest.

Gender Queer: a Memoir by Maia Kobabe

March 8, 2019 by Emmalita 3 Comments

Note: I misgendered the author in the 4th paragraph. I’d love to blame autocorrect, but it was entirely my own brain defaulting to the comfort of binary pronouns. Brains like to be comfortable and I was raised in an aggressively binary culture. That makes it more imperative that I get comfortable with discomfort, try harder, and be willing to correct others and accept correction. Maia Kobabe’s graphic novel GenderQueer: A Memoir is a beautiful gift to the world, filled with pain and compassion. Maia uses […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: genderqueer, Graphic Novel, LGBTQ, LGBTQIA, Lion Forge, Maia Kobabe, NetGalley

Emmalita's CBR11 Review No:12 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: genderqueer, Graphic Novel, LGBTQ, LGBTQIA, Lion Forge, Maia Kobabe, NetGalley ·
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