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Until I Love Myself: The Journey of a Nonbinary Manga Artist

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Autobiographical Real stories and anecdotes written by the author about their own life.LGBTQ+ Themes Prominently features characters or themes associated with the LGBTQ+ community, such as sexuality or gender identity.Agender Prominently features agender characters.Transgender Features a character whose gender identity differs from the sex they were assigned at birth.Bisexual Features a character who is romantically or sexually attracted to people of more than one sex or gender.

Until I Love Myself: The Journey of a Nonbinary Manga Artist

女の体をゆるすまで

Poppy Pesuyama is a nonbinary manga artist who feels relief whenever a form offers "neither" as an option for gender. Assigned female at birth, they struggle to find a place for themselves in a world that insists on two categories, and they are thrilled when they land a job as an assistant to the famous manga artist X.

The work turns sour: X harasses them sexually, treating them first as a girl and then as something less than human. The job lasts only a few months, but its effects do not end with it. Years later, Pesuyama is still haunted by the abuse, their gender dysphoria sharpened by it, and unable to draw manga.

To move forward, they turn to their own past, reexamining their relationships with friends, with their mother, and with the body they were born into, in search of a way to accept themselves.

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