Maia Kobabe and Sarah Peitzmeier, PhD for Breathe: Journeys to Healthy Binding
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.
Maia Kobabe (e/em/eir) 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 (2024) and eir third book will be a middle grade coming of age comic written with Swati "Lucky" Srikumar, due out from Scholastic Graphix in 2026. Before setting out to work freelance full-time, e worked for over ten years in libraries. In eir free time, Maia practices taekwondo, studies Spanish, and makes zines.
Sarah Peitzmeier, PhD (she/her) is an Associate Professor of Behavioral and Community Health at the University of Maryland School of Public Health. Sarah is interested in the radical potential of research as an act of community care. Her ongoing research includes studies to improve how we support trans survivors of intimate partner violence, how we prevent sexual assault on college campuses, and how we co-create a world where gender-based violence and health inequity are unthinkable. She is co-author (with Maia Kobabe) of the graphic novel Breathe, which is based on her research on chest binding in transmasculine individuals. When she is not doing research, she is crafting, reading fantasy novels, or suing the federal government for unconstitutionally terminating her NIH funding for trans health research. Sarah received her PhD from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2017.
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