This month's discussion features "Gender Q ueer: A Memoir" by Maia Kobabe. Winner of the 2020 American Library Associ ation (ALA) Alex Award and a 2020 ALA Stonewall - Israel Fishman Non-Ficti on honor. \;
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About "Gender Queer: A Memoir"
\nIn 2014\, Maia Kobabe\, who uses e/em/eir pronouns\, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ev er write. At the time\, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with stra ngers knowing about em. \;Now\, Gender Queer \;is here. Maia&rsquo \;s intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity\ , which includes the mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes\, g rappling with how to come out to family and society\, bonding with friends over erotic gay fanfiction\, and facing the trauma and fundamental violat ion of pap smears.
\nStarted as a way to explain to eir family what it means to be nonbinary and asexual\, \;Gender Queer \;is more th an a personal story: it is a useful and touching guide on gender identity& mdash\;what it means and how to think about it&mdash\;for advocates\, frie nds\, and humans everywhere. (Source: Simon &\; Schuster)
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About Maia Kobabe
Maia Kobabe is a nonbina ry\, queer author and illustrator from the Bay Area\, California. Eir firs t full-length book\, "Gender Queer: A Memoir\," was published in May 2019. Maia's short comics have been published by The Nib and in many anthologie s\, including "The Secret Loves of Geeks\," "Faster Than Light Y'all\," "G othic Tales of Haunted Love\, "Shout Out\," "Advanced Death Saves\," and " Be Gay\, Do Comics." Before setting out to work freelance full-time\, e wo rked for over ten years in libraries. Eir work is heavily influenced by fa iry tales\, homesickness\, and the search for identity. (Source: Simon &am p\; Schuster)
\nRock Banned Book Club Events (Locations TBC)
\nJune 14\, 2023 - "Gender Queer: A Memoi
r" by \;Maia Kobabe (Hyattsville Branch Library)
July 12\, 2023 -
"Looking for Alaska" by John Green
August 9\, 2023 - "Flamer" by Mik
e Curato
September 13\, 2023 - "All Boys Aren't Blue" by George M. Jo
hnson
October 11\, 2023 - "Lawn Boy" by Jonathan Evison"
Novembe
r 8\, 2023 - "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" by \;Sh
erman Alexie
December 13\, 2023 - "Crank" by \;Ellen Hopkins
January 10\, 2024 - "Out of Darkness" by \;Ashley Hope Perez
Feb
ruary 14\, 2024 - "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
March 13\, 2024 -
"A Court of Mist and Fury" by Sarah J. Maas
April 10\, 2024 - "Me an
d Earl and the Dying Girl" by \;Jesse Andrews
May 8\, 2024 - "The
Perks of Being a Wallflower" by Stephen \;Chbosky
June 12\, 2024
- "This Book is Gay" by \;Juno Dawson