Maia Kobabe

International Day of Peace Event

Maia Kobabe headshot

Maia Kobabe is the author of the award-winning graphic memoir, Gender Queer, which became the most challenged book in the United States in 2021 and 2022. Kobabe’s short comics have been published in The New Yorker, The Nip, and the Washington Post. E has an MFA in Comics from the California College of Arts and lives in the Bay Area. 

Live Online Event

Words Unbound: Protecting Our Stories and Challenging the New Censorship

Tuesday, September 5, 2023, 3:00 PM (HST)

Featuring Stacey Aldrich, Hawai‘i State Librarian; Meera Garud, Instructor, Library and Information Science; Marissa Halagao, Punahou alumna and Yale undergraduate; Camille Nelson, Dean, William S. Richardson School of Law; and Maya Soetoro (moderator), Matsunaga Institute for Peace.

Event Sponsors: Davis Democracy Initiative at Punahou School, Matsunaga Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution, Office of Conflict Management, Scholars Strategy Network, William S. Richardson School of Law

Words Unbound event graphic