“The dapper Black girl that danced and sang about the future had led me to a new corner of the universe and I was smitten.”

“To come into myself, to really integrate my queerness as an essential part of myself, I needed to start telling the stories I had been holding in for so long.”

“It was like needing food, and eating a pile of smooth, round stones instead. It was almost a life.”

“I would rather the limitations be financial than be limits on my work, my voice, my personhood.”

“I remember telling my girlfriend at the time, ‘I’m going to write for them some day,’ to which she replied, ‘You can try but it’s pretty competitive. I don’t think you’ll ever be good enough to write for them.'”

I want fewer queer books slipping through the cracks.

No, this is UNHEARD OF.

“Sharing my stories with that audience never felt right — I always felt like I was explaining, never that I was just telling my truth.”

“This is the most urgent I have ever felt”