Question
This work’s explicit depictions of teen sexuality have made it the most frequently-challenged book in American libraries since 2021. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this 2019 book, which depicts its author Maia Kobabe’s exploration of LGBTQ identity before coming out as asexual and non-binary.
ANSWER: Gender Queer
[10e] Gender Queer is an autobiographical work in this form, which uses comic book techniques to tell long-form narratives. Art Spiegelman used this form to write his work about the Holocaust titled Maus (“mouse”).
ANSWER: graphic novel [or graphic memoir; reject “visual novel”]
[10m] This author wrote about her closeted gay father and her lesbian identity in the graphic novel Fun Home. Two women who discuss something other than a man pass this woman’s namesake “test.”
ANSWER: Alison Bechdel
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Fall at Cornell | fall | Y | 9 | 20.00 | 100% | 89% | 11% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State | fall | Y | 9 | 20.00 | 100% | 56% | 44% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Washington | fall | Y | 7 | 25.71 | 100% | 100% | 57% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Georgia | fall | Y | 14 | 20.71 | 93% | 100% | 14% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina | fall | Y | 9 | 22.22 | 100% | 100% | 22% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Claremont Colleges | fall | Y | 1 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers | fall | Y | 7 | 22.86 | 86% | 86% | 57% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Illinois | fall | Y | 9 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Data
| Purdue A | Chicago A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Chicago B | Notre Dame A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Notre Dame C | Illinois A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Illinois C | Iowa A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Iowa B | Illinois B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Northwestern A | Indiana | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Notre Dame B | Purdue C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Northwestern B | SIUE | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| WashU A | Illinois D | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |