Book Club: Gender Queer

Stuff Mom Never Told You

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Society & Culture

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🗓️ 23 June 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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For this Pride month book club, we discuss the most banned/challenged book in the US, Maia Kobabe's heartfelt graphic novel Gender Queer: A Memoir. We chat about gender, sex ed, being true to yourself and the importance of books like this.

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Annie, Anzumata, and welcome to Seffo Never Told You, your production of I-Hart
0:08.8	Radio.
0:19.0	And welcome to another book club.
0:21.4	Today we are reading the current most banned slash challenged book in America.
0:30.1	You can see our recent, I actually think it was a classic about banned books where we
0:35.0	updated at the top about what's going on there.
0:40.5	2019's Gender Queer, a memoir by Maya Cobabe with Colors by Fidi Cobabe.
0:47.5	It's a graphic novel that explores gender identity and Maya's own experience coming
0:52.0	to terms with how E identifies and yes, E uses E and air pronouns and we're going to
1:00.5	try our best to get it right.
1:02.4	It's not difficult.
1:03.4	It's just kind of practicing.
1:05.5	It's new for us.
1:06.5	For us.
1:07.5	New for me, I'll put that in my mouth.
1:09.7	It's new for me.
1:10.9	And the book talks about that.
1:12.2	The book talks about that.
1:14.0	But let us know if we miss one because we do want to get it right.
1:17.2	But especially coming at us a young person and having all these questions, it's really
1:21.1	heartfelt and open and honest.
1:22.8	It's beautifully illustrated.
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