Nice Gender! Did Your Mom Pick it Out for You? It includes major development for characters like Ciel and Frank, and gives a bit more backstory on the characters and why they are the way they are. Serious Trans Vibes is a compilation of short comics that follow Stephie and her friends. Ultra Chicken Fun-Time Super Special presents exclusive adventures of everyone's favourite rubber chicken and their sidekick Ciel!ĭating Tips for Trans and Queer Weirdos is about Ciel and Eiríkur's first date. The World Needs More Trans Cuties includes several episodic comics and two small arcs: one of Frank having Stephie over to his house and a Winter Solstice sleepover arc.Īdd Your Own Colors to the Rainbow! is a gender & sexuality inclusive and explorative coloring book drawn mostly by Labelle with guest illustrations by several other LGBT artists. Rachel's Christmas Boat is about a girl named Lulu rushing to enact her plan to make sure Santa knows what her Dad's new name is after Lulu's Dad tells her that she's going to change her name to Rachel and be a lady now. The book is about the relationship between Stephie and her father Martin and deals with how trans children have to deal with the ignorance and insensitivity of their parents. My Dad Thinks I'm a Boy?! is a prequel to the webcomic Assigned Male. Help! Everything in My Life Is Turning GAY! In this Halloween special of Assigned Male, Frank ponders upon the effect his girlfriend Stephie has on his life while they go on a unicorn watching trip along with two other friends. Help! Everything in My Life is Turning GAY! Gender Liberation and Warm Fuzzies (followed by The Legend of the Rarest Genders) follows the adventures of 12 year-old Stephie as she goes on a class field trip, but when the dorms are co-ed there is so much drama that the gender binary almost collides in on itself. As the characters explore their femininity, they learn to care for each other, empowering themselves along the way. Nail Polish is set at the beginning of the comic series, when Stephie and Ciel met each other. It covers the beginning of Stephie and Frank's relationship and how they first met. The Assignment is an anthology of the webcomic Assigned Male. The Genderiffic Coloring Book is a coloring book for anyone about gender identity, expression, and stereotypes. Gender Euphoria is a collection of Assigned Male comics originally from November 2014 to March 2015.ĭear Cis People is about a summer party the gang throws after Stéphie gets on hormone blockers.Ĭiel at Camp Fabulous is about a young, gender non-conforming kid finding their voice at a summer camp for queer and trans youth. Works TitleĪ Girl Like Any Other is a storybook introduction to gender variance for children 6-12, told through the story of a young trans girl.ĭown with the Cis-tem is the first printed collection of Assigned Male comics. In the wake of the harassment, Labelle advocated for Canadian Bill C-16 to protect gender identity and expression, and for stronger laws against cyberbullying. She received death threats, her home address was posted in online forums, and her web site and social media accounts were compromised (which she temporarily took offline). A scheduled launch at the bookstore Venus Envy in Halifax was cancelled after threats were made against both her and the store. In May 2017 Labelle released the comic book Dating Tips for Trans and Queer Weirdos. She has created trans-centered sex education materials for Trans Student Educational Resources. She wrote the foreword to Tikva Wolf's book Ask me about Polyamory: The Best of Kimchi Cuddles. The English translation of the second volume of the Ciel series, Ciel in All Directions (2020, Second Story Press) was named as a 2022 Bank Street Children's Book Committee's Best Books of the Year. Labelle has written several books and zines about gender identity and expression, including The Genderific Coloring Book, A Girl Like Any Other, Ciel at Camp Fabulous, and Gender Euphoria. The Washington Blade called the webcomic "hilarious" and said it shows transgender humour can be funny without being offensive. Labelle said that while working with transgender children, she "noticed how negative everything we tell them about their own body is, so I wanted to create a character that could respond to all those horrible things trans kids hear all the time." She has made educational guides to go along with the comics, promoting safer spaces for trans youth. It features the character of 11-year-old Stephie, a trans girl discovering and embracing her gender.
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Labelle is the author and illustrator of Assigned Male, a webcomic and series of zines addressing issues of gender norms and privilege. She worked as an elementary school teacher, and was the camp coordinator for Gender Creative Kids Canada. Labelle grew up in rural Quebec, near Châteauguay.