On this episode, We’re With the Banned, our miniseries on banned and challenged graphic novels, takes on the most banned book of the past several years – Gender Queer: A Memoir, by Maia Kobabe, published by Lion Forge Comics/Oni Press!

We discuss some fairly personal topics and fumble a bit (although not as much as we may have feared) with the author’s preferred pronouns (e, em, and eir) as we discuss Kobabe’s account of eir struggles with gender dysphoria and other issues on the road to identifying as nonbinary.

It’s an important work, especially in our current cultural moment. But is that enough to guarantee entry into that bastion of One Direction fandom known as … The Comics Canon?

In This Episode:

·       The Spivak pronouns

·       A brief discussion of Barbarian

·       Bad news from the future

·       How did we end up talking about typing class?

·       Curt’s review of Thunderbolts*

·       Gamemasters: The Comic Book History of Roleplaying Games

Join us in two weeks as We’re With the Banned continues with a discussion of Daniel Clowes’ Ice Haven!

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