Gender Queer

Maybe if you aren't familiar with any non-cis people this book might be interesting as a sort of informative entry point. While this is perhaps rude to say about someones memoirs, I just didn't feel like it had anything interesting to say. Just a recounting of the authors life, particularly experiences regarding eir gender identity. It wasn't particularly insightful, or thought provoking, or failing that even funny. The events are often randomly put together non-chronologically, as if they're not meant to be a full narrative but random comics the author wrote one at a time (I am unsure if this is the case or not). Things were often brought up and then not followed up on, which is the authors right but in a memoir, why bring them up in the first place if you have no interest in following up? The most interesting portions of eir life was probably childhood, but these parts were mostly glossed over. It ended abruptly, I was reading it digitally and thought I had an issue with my copy. Maybe if the author had written this a few years later, they would have matured more in their storytelling, and put their insights into gender identity in a more succinct, insightful way.

(On a more personal and more unfair note: there is far too much about fanfiction in this? Particularly one direction fanfiction, honestly it just made me feel embarrassed for everyone involved. One direction fanfiction of all things.)