Legal Action Against ‘Gender Queer’ Dismissed
The legal action against Maia Kobabe (e/eir)’s graphic memoir Gender Queer has been thrown out!
This was a lawsuit brought by a politician in Virginia against both the author and eir publisher Oni Press, claiming that eir graphic memoir contravened obscenity laws.
A case was also brought against Sarah J Maas’ novel A Court of Mist and Fury as part of the same action.
The judge was like (to highly, highly, paraphrase): Nah, brah, why would you waste my time with this sbwriel?
(I love how my brain has decided that this Virginia judge speaks some sort of hybrid of dude-bro speak and Wenglish! 😅)
BUT things are still not plain-sailing for Gender Queer.
It continues to be at the top of the censors’ hit lists. Including an incredibly vague law recently passed in Missouri…