Camryn garrett books6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() It’s OK if you call yourself a lesbian even if you haven’t been with any women yet. I think we realize this as we get older, but even with the way people talk about these things online, it may seem like there are boxes to check off or a test to pass and there simply aren’t. I really want people to realize there’s not one perfect way to be queer. What do you hope young queer readers take away from it? I love that this book really celebrates the joy and messiness of coming into your identity as a teen, even as you’re still figuring yourself out. You mentioned in the introduction for this book that went out with the advance reader copies that, in the past, you struggled to write a sapphic story due to feelings of impostor syndrome surrounding your own queerness. Picking it up a few years later, I was much more confident in my messy identity and also have read and seen so many women loving each other, whether in fiction or in real life, that it really worked. I didn’t feel queer enough or like I had seen enough gay women in relationships to be writing what I was, so it always fell apart when I did. I think I was putting a lot of pressure on myself. I had a really hard time writing F/F relationships in books at the time. When I first wrote it, the story was a bit of a challenge to myself. ![]()
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