Gender Queer was the last book an Australian council tried to ban. It’s still being appealed in federal court
- Written by: Penni Russon, Senior Lecturer, School of Communication, Monash University
Maia Kobabe, author of Gender QueerGender Queer, a graphic-novel memoir of coming out as non-binary, was at the centre of Australia’s perhaps highest-profile book banning furore in recent years – that is, before western Sydney’s Cumberland City Council banned books on same-sex parenting.
And Gender Queer’s status is...
