Electro_Kitten20’s Reviews > Gender Queer: A Memoir > Status Update

Final thoughts, great book, especially for those in the queer community or allies who want to better understand others experiences. I apologize if I didn't make sense, I'm very tired and will be promptly going to my dorm after I hit "update progress". I'm not sure if anyone can see this but me (maybe my friends on here I'm not sure), if you're reading this go read more books (I found this book at a banded book table)

The result being that everything was fine is all the more sad, like it sucks e went though all that for seemingly no reason. (2/2)

So the second time Maia gets this procedure, I was expecting it to be bad but not worse. On this page specifically, using just text to describe what's happening speaks volumes. And the next page, wow, I didn't even know a pap smear could cause someone to bleed. This one just absolutely hit me for some reason, not really sure why. The next page with eir mom literally made me cry/tear up, like wow. (1/2)

"What my body told me was that this intrusion of the outside world into my internal physical being was wrong on a level too deep for words".

I could sit here and try to dissect the art on this page but I'm no art major or expert so I'll say this. I believe this moment absolutely warranted two pages of the novel with these depictions of what the pap smear felt like for em. Having never experienced one this makes me a bit scared not honestly. The way the words are written around the subject and the subject gets smaller is, well, art. (1/?)

For now I believe I'm done with my general analysis and would like to touch on a few specific pages and what I thought about them.
(5/5)

in a lot of queer spaces and having friends whom use neopronouns (The E, Em, Eir set is called Spivak, I didn't know they could have names tbh). I am a bit conflicted on the fact that the novel jumps around in time. I love all the stories this gives us but it's also a bit had to follow. The Allison Bechdel mention on page 135 reminds me I really need to read fun home (it was a mention that I got surprisingly) (4/?)

no bearing on my gender expression (for me that's types of clothing, shaving or not, etc). Not to reveal too much about myself but I am very inexperienced when it comes to dating (having only 2 partners thus far), and decently experienced when it comes to fanfiction, much like Maia. I had also never heard of the pronoun set E, Em, Eir before this novel, despite having been (3/?)

(which I've wrote papers about in the past), getting your period, becoming a "woman", etc. are all very interesting. As someone born female it's relatable albeit differently than the authors perspective. I've often wondered about how my gender presentation affects my gender identity and, for myself, have settled on the fact that my gender has (2/?)

Honestly I've realized that there's too much to comment on taking it section by section so I'm just going to go more broadly. This book is so deeply relatable to, honestly anyone, but to me because I'm ace-spec. Although the way the author experiences sexuality and gender is different than me, I still find some likeness. The conversations about society expectations in regards to subjects like shaving your legs (1/?)