MAIA KOBABE & SARAH PEITZMEIER

SANTA ROSA --

Copperfield’s Books welcomes local author Maia Kobabe and Maryland Professor Sarah Peitzmeier to Santa Rosa for their evidence based YA graphic guide - .

The discussion will be followed by an audience Q&A and book signing.

This event is free and open to the public.

A graphic guide to chest binding with real-life stories and research-backed advice from bestselling Gender Queer author Maia Kobabe and University of Michigan professor Sarah Peitzmeier.

Breathe arose from the need for a resource for folks considering chest binding as gender-affirming care. Dr. Peitzmeier interviewed twenty-five people of different ages and backgrounds about their journeys with binding, and then she and Kobabe combined excerpts from those interviews with evidence-based resources on binding into this extremely accessible guide.

Breathe is both a practical resource for trans and nonbinary folks and an engaging and perspective-broadening read for anyone interested in what it means to be on a journey of expressing one’s gender in ways that are joyful, healthy, and affirming.

Author: Maia Kobabe is a nonbinary queer cartoonist, a kpop fan, a voracious reader, and a daydreamer. You can learn an astonishing number of intimate details about em in Gender Queer: A Memoir (America's most challenged book 2021-2023) and in eir short comics and writing published in The Nib, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, NPR, and Time Magazine. Maia’s second book is Breathe: Journeys to Healthy Binding with Dr Sarah Peitzmeier and eir third book is a middle grade coming of age comic written with Lucky Srikumar, due out in 2026. Before setting out to work freelance full-time, e worked for over ten years in libraries.

Sarah Peitzmeier, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Community Health at the University of Maryland School of Public Health. Her mixed-methods research focuses on the epidemiology and prevention of gender-based violence, as well as LGBTQ+ health promotion. She has received funding from the NIH, the CDC, and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, and is best known for her research to understand, screen for, prevent, and respond to intimate partner violence in transgender populations. She is co-author of the graphic novel Breathe, which is based on her research on chest binding in transmasculine individuals.

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