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“I’ve been thinking a great deal about time and motion lately, about being a still point in the ceaseless rush.” 
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

The Front Cover of Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe
Gender Queer
by Maia Kobabe
Memoir
Adult

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Gender Queer, a graphic memoir about author Maia Kobabe's journey towards identifying as transgender, was removed from Wake County Public Library (NC) in December after complaints that it was pornographic. The removal was met with outrage from some in the Wake County community, including an open letter from librarians in protest. In response, WCPL announced on January 10 that they would return Gender Queer to the shelves and work on revising their removal policy.

In October of last year, a video surfaced of Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson's remarks calling books about LGBT identity “filth.” When many North Carolinians expressed outrage, Robinson defended his comments and targeted three books specifically for removal: Gender Queer, Lawn Boy, and George, which he described as “pornographic” and inappropriate for schools and libraries. Read more here

2020 ALA Alex Award Winner 
2020 Stonewall -- Israel Fishman Non-fiction Award Honor Book

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 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. 

 

"It's also 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." -- SLJ (starred review)

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Summer Storytime!
Tuesday, August 9th
10am-11am
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Kids-Create Storytime
Wednesday, August 10th
10:30am-12pm
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Book Signing with Dave Wedge
Thursday, August 11th
10am-12pm
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JOURNEYS FROM UKRAINE: An Evening of Stories, Food, and Fundraising
Thursday, August 11th
5pm
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Meet Pete the Cat!
Friday, August 12th
10am-11 am

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