As a child with no access to queer or trans stories, I turned to "The Return of the Swamp Thing" for the message that I would be okay
An angry subreddit and a mysterious sisterhood are dueling narrators in A.E. Osworth's "We Are Watching Eliza Bright"
"Mini Apple" by Mira Sethi, recommended by Farah Ali
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SupportActivist and organizer Anjali Enjeti writes about developing and claiming her identity as a mixed-race woman in the Deep South
Would I have realized I was gay sooner if queer books were more mainstream?
Lauren Hough, author of "Leaving Isn’t the Hardest Thing," on growing up in a cult, engaging in Twitter fights, and why we should hate people and move on
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"Mini Apple" by Mira Sethi, recommended by Farah Ali
Two poems by Patricia No
"Robinson Crusoe at the Waterpark" by Elizabeth McCracken, recommended by Matt Bell
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