Gender Queer: The Annotated Edition

2020 ALA Alex Award Winner
2020 Stonewall — Israel Fishman Non-fiction Award Honor Book
2020 ALA Rainbow Project Book List
2020 YALSA Best Books List
2019 New York Public Library’s 50 Best Books for Teens
2019 SLJ Best Graphic Novel List
2019 The Advocate’s Best LGBTQ Graphic Novels List

“Seven years after its original 2019 publication, Maia Kobabe’s graphic memoir Gender Queer has achieved pantheonic status, earning recognition as not just a major achievement in the world of comics, but an important work of literature.” —Publishers Weekly

“An insightful and moving coming of age discovery.” —The Los Angeles Times

“Wonderfully enlightening. I learned a lot, and became even more empathetic. That’s what books are all about.” Judy Blume, bestselling author of Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.

“Gender Queer exists so a new generation can see the words and experiences to help them feel whole and seen.” —Booklist, starred review

“This heartfelt graphic memoir relates, with sometimes painful honesty, the experience of growing up non-gender-conforming.’” – Publishers Weekly

“A great resource for those who identify as nonbinary or asexual as well as for those who know someone who identifies that way and wish to better understand” – School Library Journal, starred review

“A challenging yet heartwarming memoir, Gender Queer succeeds on all fronts.” – Shelf Awareness

“A beautiful new reprinting…Gender Queer’s effect on readers will always be more important than the bans.” – Polygon

“This special annotated version of the book unfairly at the center of so many book ban efforts brings in other voices beyond Kobabe’s, including other queer writers and artists and academics who further contextualize the work.” – Autostraddle

“A deeply personal revisit from the cartoonist emself… Gender Queer: The Annotated Edition offers something for everybody—from first-time readers of the 2019 graphic memoir to long-time supporters of Kobabe’s work. The richly expanded version of eir’s graphic memoir earned em near-universal critical acclaim, multiple book-ban distinctions, and a permanent place in the canon of essential LGBTQIA+ nonfiction.” —Prism Comics

“Gender Queer: The Annotated Edition makes tangible its fierce love for the LGBTQIA2+ youth community in tidal, scribal force, and enthusiastically urges readers to become history’s next creators and commentators for one another.” —The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books

Maia Kobabe is a nonbinary queer cartoonist, a kpop fan, a voracious reader, and a daydreamer. You can learn an astonishing number of intimate details about em in GENDER QUEER: A MEMOIR (America’s most challenged book 2021-2023) and in eir short comics and writing published in The Nib, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, NPR, and Time Magazine. Maia’s second book is BREATHE: JOURNEYS TO HEALTHY BINDING with Dr Sarah Peitzmeier and eir third book will be a middle grade coming of age comic written with Lucky Srikumar, due out from Scholastic Graphix in 2026. Before setting out to work freelance full-time, e worked for over ten years in libraries.

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