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“Gender Queer: A Memoir” by Maia Kobabe, published in 2019, details the author’s exploration of gender identity and sexuality from adolescence through adulthood. Portland Press Herald file photo
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“Gender Queer: A Memoir” by Maia Kobabe, published in 2019, details the author’s exploration of gender identity and sexuality from adolescence through adulthood.
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The author eventually comes out as nonbinary and asexual, and adopts the gender-neutral pronouns e, em and eir.
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“As I pondered a pronoun change, I began to think of gender less as a scale and more as a landscape,” Kobabe writes.
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The Young Adult Library Services Association, a division of the American Library Association, gave “Gender Queer” a 2020 Alex Award for Teen Readers as a book of special appeal to readers 12 to 18.