Join us for our collaboration with queer cultural center, bookstore, and event space, THE BUREAU OF GENERAL SERVES QUEER DIVISION at THE CENTER (New York City’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center). GENDER QUEER is the story of author Maia Kobabe’s journey with gender identity told as a graphic memoir. The book has both won awards for its hone
st storytelling and been banned more than any other in the U.S. It inspires new music, art and performance on June 10th from BBC artists: John S. Hall Paula Spiro Yva Las Vegass spiritchild Endless Arrows Jason Trachtenburg Anni Rossi Don Rauf Susan Hwang Boy Meets Pearl Honi Harlow Hanuel Lee Stephanie Larriere
Saturday, June 10th, 7pm (6:30pm doors) THE CENTER 208 West 13th Street New York, NY 10011
TICKETS: $10 suggested donation click HERE
About GENDER QUEER: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe 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)
