![]() She wanted so desperately to be “one of the boys,” but the boys wouldn’t ever allow it, and of course, she never felt like she fit in with the girls. ![]() She was teased a lot, called derogatory names, accused of being a boy or a lesbian (and these were definitely accusations from her tormentors), and never felt she fit in. While attending Catholic school, she was forced to wear a dress for monthly mass, and it was tortuous. Liz’s preferred method of gender expression didn’t make things easy for her. ![]() While it focuses primarily on Liz’s struggle with her gender identity, the book is also a story about family and art, much like Sisters is. The book takes Liz from her infancy up through her adolescence and into her later teen years, tackling friendship, bullying, dating, and other rites of passage. She hates wearing dresses, enjoys playing sports, doesn’t play with dolls, and looks down upon the “girly girls” who dress up like princesses and seem obsessed with makeup. ![]() Prince characterizes her identity as a tomboy as something she knew from almost the moment of birth, though she didn’t know how to articulate it right away. ![]() Liz Prince’s Tomboy addresses this topic a bit more bluntly than Telgemeier’s Sisters does. Coincidentally (or maybe not), they were both graphic memoirs about growing up as a girl in America. In yesterday’s post, I wrote about how I enjoy getting my nonfiction via graphic novel, and I read two spectacular ones over this past weekend. ![]()
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