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b"Banned books, awkward adolescence, and pronouns.\\nWe recently read Maia Kobaba's GENDER QUEER: A MEMOIR on Raman\\u2019s other not-so-secret podcast Quarantined Comics. Created in 2014 - by Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns - created a cathartic autobiography of Eir's experience with gender identity \\u2014 from crushes to fan fic, from coming out to making out. What started as a series of Instagram posts to explain to the author's family what it means to be nonbinary and asexual, Gender Queer becomes so much more than a personal story: it is a useful and touching guide on gender identity\\u2014what it means and how to think about it\\u2014for advocates, friends, and humans everywhere.\\nAnd then it became the most banned book in the country. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/01/books/maia-kobabe-gender-queer-book-ban.html\\nWhat started as a simple, moving, explanation of gender identity - with the potential to create so much greater empathy and understanding for all of us\\xa0got picked up by a parent on the wrong side of history, and a social media firestorm resulted, snowballing into headlines aroundthe country - with dozense of schools pulling it from library shelves around the country - from the Carolinas to Texas to Virginia - with many officials labeling it \\u201cpornographic.\\u201d\\nBut we're not here to talk about the controversy surrounding the book (we do, inevitably) \\u2014 we're here to talk about the work itself. in light of all the other not so positive change happening in our society, it felt really important to read Gender Queer, and can't recommend this book enough. Warning, this is one of the rare\\xa0episodes where Raman & Ryan agree on almost everything =)\\nLEARN ABOUT\\nGENDER QUEER (comic): goodreads.com/book/show/42837514-gender-queer\\n\\nQuarantined Comics (Raman + Ryan's podcast): qtdcomics.com\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices"