For LGBTQIA+ people, representation in media is constantly expanding. I hesitate to use the words “forward” or “come a long way” – because there’s no such thing as “forward” and “backward” when queer, trans, and other ways of being outside the colonial “norm” have existed forever. It’s more of a…
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When I first started in publishing around ten years ago, there wasn’t a lot of queer representation. There were hardly any F/F books in stores, especially not any about bisexual or pansexual teens that I had access to. And certainly none whatsoever about queer characters of color, let alone…
A number of sapphic ships were critical to my coming out—Clexa from The 100, Wayhaught from Wynonna Earp, Golly from Rookie Blue, Vauseman from Orange is the New Black. At that time in my life, seeing queer relationships normalized on TV was such an important thing for me, especially…