For October's Banned Books Book Club we are reading Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe. This book was banned, challenged, and restricted for LGBTQIA+ content, and because it was considered to have sexually explicit images. (Learn more at Banned Books Week and American Library Association).
Meet at Explore Booksellers, just two blocks from the library.
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 and fundamental violation 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.