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Maia Kobabe
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reading books, writing books, defending books
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If you missed the Gender Queer merch sale earlier this year and still want something, the stock is now up in the @oni-press.bsky.social shop again! I especially love the embroidered patch :D
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A photo of Gender Queer themed merch including a black t-shirt with an illustrated quote from the book, an embroidered patch, small book shaped key chains, and a set of three colorful enamel pins. Gender queer themed merch including t-shirts in three colors (yellow, black and red) and a colorful round embroidered patch posed with the book.
November 6, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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I'm speaking on a panel at the Berkeley Public Library this Sat Nov 8 from 1:30-2:30 with Laura Gao, Kiara Brinkman, Sean Chiki, & Briana Loewinsohn moderated by @mgillman.bsky.social. Catch us in the 2nd floor Mystery Room! More info here: berkeleypubliclibrary.libnet.info/event/14727151
poster for the Berkeley Public Library Comic Con on November 8, 2025, from 10:30-4:30pm at 2090 Kittredge St, Berkeley, CA Schedule for the Berkeley Public Library Con, available at: https://berkeleypubliclibrary.libnet.info/event/14727151
November 3, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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October reading and reviews on patreon, free post: www.patreon.com/posts/octobe... #bookreviews
A cover collage of all the books Maia Kobabe read and reviewed in October: Katabasis by RF Kuang Carl’s Doomsday Scenario by Matt Dinniman read by Jeff Hays Simplicity: A Novel by Mattie Lubchansky Doodles by Ryoko Kui: Daydream Hour by Ryoko Kui translated by Taylor Engel Maison Ikkoku Vol 1 (Viz Signature edition) by Rumiko Takahashi translated by Matt Treyvaud The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook by Matt Dinniman read by Jeff Hays Raised By Ghosts by Briana Loewinsohn The Gate of the Feral Gods by Matt Dinniman read by Jeff Hays Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad The Butcher’s Masquerade by Matt Dinniman read by Jeff Hays Peerless vol 1 by Meng Xi Shi translated by Faelicy Peerless vol 2 by Meng Xi Shi translated by Faelicy The Eye of the Bedlam Bride by Matt Dinniman read by Jeff Hays
November 2, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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I'm excited to share that we've got another edition of Gender Queer on the way for next spring! This one is annotated by queer and trans authors, comics scholars, and multiple people who appear in the book as characters 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈📚
The cover of "Gender Queer: Annotated Edition" by Maia Kobabe. A digital drawing shows Maia (a white nonbinary person with short brown hair) seating in profile on a hillside covered in California native wildflowers overlooking the Sonoma County coastline. Golden hills covered in oak trees recede into the distance around a grey pebble beach and a richly blue ocean under a blue sky
October 22, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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California, please vote YES on Prop 50!
more info:
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California Prop 50 is endorsed by: AAPI Equity Alliance ~ AFSCME ~ Arab Resource & Organizing Center ~ California Federation of Teachers ~ California NOW ~ California Nurses Association ~ Climate Action Campaign ~ Democratic National Committee ~ Equality California ~ Indivisible ~ LEAD Filipino ~ MoveOn ~ NAACP ~ National Democratic Redistrictring Committee ~ National Union of Healthcare Workers ~ Planned Parenthood ~ Reproductive Freedom for All ~ South Asian Network ~ Swing Left ~ The San Diego LGBT Community Center ~ The Source LGBT+ Center ~ United Farm Workers ~ Voices for Progress ~ Vote Forward ~ Women's March Foundation ~ Working Families Party ~ Youth Save Democracy PAC ~ and many more! Vote Yes on CA Prop 50!
October 22, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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It's Banned Books Week. If you are an author, please join @authorsabb.bsky.social! If you work in the publishing industry, please join @pubprosabb.bsky.social! Canadian authors, you can now join Canadian Authors & Illustrators Against Book bans: linktr.ee/caiabb. Working together feels good! 📚✍️👏
The black and white cover of a zine titled Do you make books? Yes? I want YOU to join Authors Against Book Bans! By Maia Kobabe. The image shows author Maia Kobabe holding a stack of books and pointing at the reader WHAT IS AABB? A coalition of writers, illustrators, editors & other book creators, standing united against the unconstitutional movement to limit the freedom to read. We support the availability of diverse voices in our libraries, in our schools, & in our culture. We pledge to band together against the oppression of literature, to speak when our voices are silenced, to go where our bodies are needed, & to fight to ensure this freedom. Our concern is not only for the books, but for the children, families, educators, librarians, & communities who suffer when the freedom to read is challenged and taken away. WHAT CAN AABB OFFER YOU? - Regional groups working on legislation to protect authors & the freedom to read state-by-state - Online trainings on digital security, public speaking, & how to counter book challenges in your community -Affinity groups for BIPOC authors, queer authors, authors with disabilities, indie, nonfiction, romance writers & more -Support if your book is challenged or your school visit is canceled! -A very active discord community Person: What if my book hasn’t been challenged? Maia: JOIN! Person: Ok, but what if I’m really busy and can’t do much organizing right now? Maia: JOIN ANYWAY! Even if all you do is sign up, your membership will help lend weight to the letters & statements AABB sends out. As of fall 2025, AABB has nearly 5000 members. Check out the open letter to publishers on AABB’s socials & feel free to share it with your publishing & industry contacts. An Open Letter to Our Publishers- instagram.com/p/DCzYmKcR8uq Maia: I’ve been facing intense challenges to my book since 2021. Knowing that I am not alone in the fight against censorship is what keeps my spirits up! Watching the folks in AABB share information, co-write legislation, show up to library & school board meetings, & speak up to publishers about the need to protect diverse books & minority authors has been amazing! This is a weird & scary time to be an author, but you are not alone! Join thousands of us fighting for the freedom to read, the freedom to write, the freedom to teach, the freedom to learn, & the freedom to share our stories! -Maia Kobabe, 2025
October 8, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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RM starting off Banned Books Week with us 💜 #readbannedbooks #bannedbooksweek #kimnamjoon
RM aka Kim Namjoon of BTS wearing a blue plaid flannel and a black baseball cap which says "Read Banned Books" sitting in front of a white couch with a slight smile on his face. Closeup of RM aka Kim Namjoon of BTS wearing a black baseball cap which says "Read Banned Books Penguin Random House"
October 6, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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My September book reviews and action items are up on Patreon (free post): www.patreon.com/posts/140206...
All of the books Maia Kobabe read and reviewed in September: It Rhymes With Takei by George Takei, Harmony Becker, Steven Scott, and Justin Eisinger War of Streets and Houses by Sophie Yanow The Dispossessed by Ursula K Le Guin read by Don Leslie Intimacies by Katie Kitamura Love Me Like You’re Real by Cynthia Yuan Cheng Greater Secrets by Ananth Hirsh and Tess Stone The King’s Warrior by Huahua Zhu Picture This: How Pictures Work by Molly Bang (25th anniversary edition) This Place Kills Me by Mariko Tamaki and Nicole Goux Darius The Great Is Not Okay By Adib Khorram read by Michael Levi Harris You Are The Detective: The Creeping Hand Murder by Maureen Johnson, illustrated by Jay Cooper Raging Clouds by Yudori Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman read by Jeff Hays
October 1, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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On Thurs 10/9 at 6pm I'll be speaking with fellow banned book authors @sarahandianhoffman.bsky.social whose picture book Jacob's Room to Choose was part of the Supreme Court Case Mahmoud v Taylor. In San Francisco, tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/book-banni...
Sarah and Ian Hoffman authors of the Jacob picture book series in conversation with Maia Kobabe, author of Gender Queer a Memoir. Thursday October 9, from 6-7:30pm at Manny's (3092 16th Street in San Francisco).
September 26, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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I also signed four copies of Gender Queer at Kramer's Books in Dupont Circle, DC. Here is their great Banned Books display! www.kramers.com #genderqueeramemoir #bannedbooks #bannedbookdisplay
a bookshelf from Kramer's Books in Dupont Circle, DC, showing many frequently challenged and banned books including The Handmaiden's Tale graphic novel, Flamer, Catcher In the Rye, Persepolis, Gender Queer, An Indigenous People's History of the United States, How to be an Antiracist, Nineteen Minutes, Stamped from the Beginning, Between the World and Me, This Book is Gay, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, That Librarian, The Bluest Eye, A Raisin the Sun, The Beautiful and Damned, A Canticle for Leibowitz, The Color Purple, Sold, Looking for Alaska, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, of Mice and Men, All Boys Aren't Blue, The Fire Next Time, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee and Lord of The Flies.
September 23, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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I had such a wonderful time at @peoplesbooktakoma.com with @sarahpeitzmeier.bsky.social & Frances Reed! We left many signed copies of Gender Queer and Breathe: Journeys to Healthy Binding there, & the bookstore is now carrying a selection of my zines as well! A must visit if you are in the area.
a yellow sandwich sign on a brick street corner which reads "People's Book- Here be Books Bout Dragons, open 9 to 8 Daily" A picture of authors Sarah Peitzmeier and Maia Kobabe, both dressed very cute and smiling, sitting in yellow armchairs in front of a yellow People's Book sign in the corner of the bookstore during an author talk Three authors each holding a copy of their books standing in front of big windows and yellow armchairs in the bookstore People's Book in Takoma Park, Maryland. From left to right are: Frances Reed (a white nonbinary person with a swoop of gray hair, glasses, and a big smile), Sarah Peitzmeier (an Asian American woman in a chic black dress, glasses, big smile and asymmetrical haircut) and Maia Kobabe, (a white nonbinary person with short brown hair, smile, black and pink floral button up and red shorts). This was taken at a joint book event on September 12, 2025. A large white painted brick wall leading into a parking lot under a blue evening sky. On the wall is a big painted yellow arrow with the signs People's Book, Tonal Park and Takoma Radio, 7014 Westmoreland Ave
September 23, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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I'll be SPX table H12 with @kendraandkat.bsky.social this weekend! See you there?
Small Press Expo 2025 September 13 11am–7pm & September 14 Noon–6pm Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center 5701 Marinelli Road Rockville, Maryland 20852
September 8, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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The FTC is accepting public comment on access to gender affirming care for minors until 9/26/2025: regulations.gov/docket/FTC-2025-0264 They are trying to prove it's harmful. @transequality.bsky.social has more info & a template for comments: transequality.org/ftc-hands-of...
a digital drawing of a happy nonbinary person, nude from the waist up, stretching one hand up to the sky and holding a green bracken fern in front of their body, which has visible top surgery scars. This is a self portrait of author Maia Kobabe (a white person with short hair in eir early 30s)
September 3, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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My August book reviews! www.patreon.com/posts/137886... (free post)
Hild by Nicola Griffith read by Pearl Hewitt Menewood by Nicola Griffith read by Pearl Hewitt Notes of a Crocodile by Qiu Miaojin translated by Bonnie Huie Fawn's Blood by Hal Schrieve Kirby’s Lessons for Falling (in Love) by Laura Gao Blades of Furry Vol 1 by Emily Erdos and Deya Muniz The Worst Ronin by Maggie Tokuda-Hall and Faith Schaffer How To Get Over The End of The World by Hal Schrieve read by Scott Turner Schofield, JJ Hawkins and Kiebpoli Calnek Authority: Essays by Andrea Long Chu Hammajang Luck by Makana Yamamoto read by Jolene Kim
September 1, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Here are the new to San Francisco Zinefest titles I'll have available on Sunday 8/31 from 11-5! I'll be tabling at 86AB, in the same table circle as @martinamonster.art and @thebeanbaguette.bsky.social :) SFZF info: www.sfzinefest.org
Breathe: Journeys to Healthy Binding by Maia Kobabe and Sarah Peitzmeier (64 page nonfiction comic on chest binding) Taekwondo: A Fanzine by Maia Kobabe (12 page autobio about my 8 year journey with Taewondo) Buying ESIMS for Gaza by Maia Kobabe (12 page informational comic about the Connecting Gaza eSIMs project) Sorry We're Temporary: Anthology (28 page fancomic for the kpop group Zerobaseone by 5 authors) Reading Robin Hobb by Maia Kobabe (8 page fanzine about the book series The Realm of the Elderlings) Things That Refill My Energy by Maia Kobabe (8 page zine about things that support my mental health lately) I Want You to Join Authors Against Book Bans! by Maia Kobabe (8 page informational recruitment zine for AABB)
August 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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One week left to order Gender Queer merch including including this print, t-shirts, enamel pins, patches, key chains and signed books: oni-press.myshopify.com/collections/... Pre-orders are open now through August 20 2025 with fulfillment beginning in September 2025 by @oni-press.bsky.social
A colorful digital drawing of author Maia Kobabe from behind, carrying a pride flag over eir shoulder and with a selection of patches on the back of eir jacket including ones reading Fight Censorship, Read Comics, Trans Rights Are Human Rights, Black Lives Matter, Gender Queer, and images of the Palestinian flag, the moon, the ace of hearts from a card deck, and a purple, white and yellow pansy.
August 14, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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I'm also tabling at San Francisco Zinefest www.sfzinefest.org on Sunday 8/31 (free) and at SPX @smallpressexpo.bsky.social www.smallpressexpo.com Saturday & Sunday 9/13 & 9/14 (ticketed). Say hello if you'll be there!
8/31 — THE 24TH ANNUAL SAN FRANCISCO ZINE FEST Sunday, August 31 (11am - 5pm) City View at Metreon (top floor of the building) 135 4th St., San Francisco Small Press Expo 2025 September 13 11am–7pm & September 14 Noon–6pm Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center 5701 Marinelli Road Rockville, Maryland 20852
August 11, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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@sarahpeitzmeier.bsky.social & I have a bookstore event coming up on 9/12/2025 at @peoplesbooktakoma.com in Takoma Park, MD (the Friday before @smallpressexpo.bsky.social)!

Free but RSVP required: peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/breathe/
People's Book Presents Maia Kobabe & Sarah Peitzmeier talking about their book Breathe on Friday September 12 from 6-7pm at 7014-A Westmoreland Ave, Takoma Park, MD, 20912. Event is free but RSVP is required
August 11, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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these are my favorite kpop releases of the year so far!
Maia's fav kpop of 2025
August 3, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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July reading and reviews (free post) www.patreon.com/posts/july-r... #bookreviews #comicbookreviews #reading
a collage of book covers generated by Storygraph of all the books Maia Kobabe reviewed in July: Dragonsinger by Anne McCaffery read by Sally Darling Teach Like an Ally by Flint Del Sol Batcat: Sink or Swim by Meggie Ramm Batcat: Cooking Contest by Meggie Ramm Tom Lake by Ann Pratchett read by Meryl Streep A/S/L by Jeanne Thornton Dragondrums by Anne McCaffery read by Sally Darling Flip by Ngozi Ukazu The Cartoonist Club by Raina Telgemeier and Scott McCloud Everything Is Tuberculosis written and read by John Green Write Through It: An Insider’s Guide to Publishing and the Creative Life by Kate McKean Reel Life by Kane Lynch Goat Magic by Kate Wheeler
August 2, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Salah Shabat, brother of martyred journalist Hossam Shabat, is raising funds to provide displaced families in north of Gaza w clean drinking water. Their goal of $2500/week ensures the project continues w building irrigation systems alongside the delivery of food & water. tinyurl.com/northwateraid
Salah Shabat, brother of martyred journalist Hossam Shabat, is raising funds to provide displaced families in the north of Gaza with clean drinking water. Their goal of $2500/week ensures the project continues with building irrigation systems alongside the delivery of food and water. tinyurl.com/northwateraid
August 2, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Water for Khan Younis is an initiative to support clean drinking water for displaced Palestinians in Al-Mawasi, in southern Gaza. With the donations so far, they have been able to deliver two drinking water trucks on a daily basis (6000L or 7500L each day). tinyurl.com/khanyouniswater
Water for Khan Younis is an initiative to support clean drinking water for displaced Palestinians in Al-Mawasi, in southern Gaza. With the donations so far, they have been able to deliver two drinking water trucks on a daily basis (6000L or 7500L each day). tinyurl.com/khanyouniswater
August 2, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Gaza Soup Kitchen, run by the Almadhoun family & their friends, sources ingredients from remaining farms, & buys supplies as soon as they hit the markets in order to provide hot meals for displaced families. Based in the north of Gaza, they feed around 3000 people daily. tinyurl.com/gazakitchn
Gaza Soup Kitchen is run by the Almadhoun family and their friends. Gaza Soup Kitchen sources ingredients from remaining farms, and buys supplies as soon as they hit the markets in order to provide hot meals for displaced families. Based in the north of Gaza, they feed around 3000 people daily. tinyurl.com/gazakitchn
August 2, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Amal for Palestine, founded in 2021, provides financial help, services, and meals for families in Gaza. Since the escalation of the genocide, Amal for Palestine has continuously raised funds for food and other necessities for displaced Palestinians in the north of Gaza. givebutter.com/SevBF8
Amal for Palestine is an organization founded in 2021, providing financial help, services, and meals for families in Gaza. Since the escalation of the genocide, Amal for Palestine has continuously raised funds for food and other necessities for displaced Palestinians in the north of Gaza. givebutter.com/SevBF8
August 2, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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The Sameer Project: Refaat Al Areer Camp is an encampment in Central Gaza put together by the Sameer Project that shelters, provides food and water, and medical care for displaced Palestinians. tinyurl.com/sameercamp
The Sameer Project: Refaat Al Areer Camp is an encampment in Central Gaza put together by the Sameer Project that shelters, provides food and water, and medical care for displaced Palestinians. tinyurl.com/sameercamp
August 2, 2025 at 7:57 PM