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Banned Books: Maia Kobabe explores gender identity in 'Gender Queer'

Author Maia Kobabe explores gender identity in the 2019 graphic memoir Gender Queer, which is centered on coming out to friends and family. Listen to this 7-minute podcast discussion with Maia Kobabe
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Banned Books: Author George M. Johnson on the need to tell all people's stories

Listen to this 6-minute podcast by George M. Johnson, author of All Boys Aren't Blue, a series of essays following Johnson's journey growing up as a queer Black man in Plainfield, New Jersey.

Cover of All Boys Aren't Blue