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not available for free in the library. That is queer teens who might not feel comfortable bringing a book with such an obvious title into their home, if they have more conservative parents who would only feel safe reading the book secretly in the library without even checking it out. So yes, it upsets me because what I'm seeing is resources being taken away from queer marginalized youth, which does hurt. That does hurt me.
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More than simply a memoir, the book is designed to explain the very concept of being non-binary, beginning with the author's first memories of gender and ending with the discovery of Spivak pronouns (e, em, eir) and eir first steps towards getting the people around em to accept and understand said
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I wrote this book in huge part because I was struggling to come out, and I was asking myself all these questions and I was having these somewhat challenging conversations. And it often seems like I was never able to fully get my point across. And I got to the point where I thought, 'I have to sit
979:"While I'm threading, I'll add that this person emailed me to tell me about e/em pronouns as if he invented them. He didn't; those are Spivak pronouns. So I directed him to our interview with Maia Kobabe, a Spivak-using author and perfect human: https://t.co/6ouk4mOL94"
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