TMAC (Transmasculine Alliance of Chicago) partners with EPL for a monthly book club.
This month, the group will be reading the graphic novel "Genderqueer: A Memoir" by Maia Kobabe.
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.
2020 ALA Alex Award Winner
2020 Stonewall — Israel Fishman Non-fiction Award Honor Book
At this time, this book club is hosted with TMAC (Transmasculine Alliance of Chicago) and only open to afab (assigned female at birth) trans, GNC, non-binary, or questioning adults (18+) interested in reading trans authors.
For further information on this new club, or if you have ideas about how the library can better serve the Evanston TGNC community at large, please email M. Halka (mhalka@cityofevanston.org).
Additionally, the library is revitalizing its LGBT+ book group open to all patrons. Please contact Kellye Fleming kfleming@cityofevanston for more information about this general book club.
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