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teganandorsaraquin · 2 years
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wrongspacetime · 2 years
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I know you liked being more than friends... didn't you?
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Freshman year. Book 2. Pages 18-19.
*Page 17 has been intentionally left out to ensure the author (myself) remains anonymous.
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rickkanelives · 29 days
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I'm proud to share that my graphic novel Nick Pope is now on the shelf of the Countway Library at Harvard Medical School!
The book deals with (undiagnosed) bipolar disorder, sexual orientation and bullying in 1987, so I think this is a worthy home for it.
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dykenav · 8 months
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okay I’ve gathered a decent number of seemingly promising recs for lesbian fantasies but now I am just literally asking and begging for any book with a butch main character that is not a Sad Contemporary
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evadneares · 10 months
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Zoe Trope, "Please Don't Kill the Freshmen"
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blueeyeddarkknight · 1 year
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Bby Val and Mare Winnigham ( top right) in junior high school.. School theater awards 🥰 👶
thank you @vkhuckleberries for being my eyes and confirming my guess
Photo source : Val's childhood friend Brad Koepenick on Facebook.
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the-physicality · 3 months
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dominik528 · 2 years
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The scrawny kid I first met in junior high was now a strapping six-footer. He added some muscle, too. He was lifting weights at home, at his dad's suggestion. One of Lionel Dahmer's many attempts to get his son interested in something. Not that bulking up improved his standing among his peers. He had an odd walk, arms straight at his sides, shoulders thrust slightly forward. A distinctive gait.
-- John "Derf" Backderf, My Friend Dahmer
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celepom · 2 years
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The Greatest Thing
By Sarah Winifred Searle
It’s the first day of sophomore year, and now that Winifred’s two best (and only) friends have transferred to a private school, she must navigate high school on her own. But she isn’t alone for long. In art class, she meets two offbeat students, Oscar and April. The three bond through clandestine sleepovers, thrift store shopping, and zine publishing. Winifred is finally breaking out of her shell, but there’s one secret she can’t bear to admit to April and Oscar, or even to herself—and this lie is threatening to destroy her newfound friendships. With breathtaking art and honest storytelling, rising star Sarah Winifred Searle delivers a heartfelt story about love, friendship, and self-acceptance.
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A very emotional read about the lives of three very lost, but kindred spirits trying to survive their youths. Even those with the happiest of exteriors you can never really know what’s going on below the surface, especially if they’re deliberately hiding it. It’s important that you take steps to help yourself, not just protect yourself in ways that are routine.
TW: Disordered eating, self-harm
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teganandorsaraquin · 2 years
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basketbear-books · 1 year
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They Called Us Enemy by George Takei; Illustrated by Harmony Becker
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First off, his name is pronounced tuh-kay. It rhymes with okay. Let's get it right folks. In this moving memori, George Takei takes readers into the world of Japanese intermnet camps duirng World War I. Rather than only looking back as an adult on his childhood experiences, Takei's story is told through his childhood eyes. This not only drives home the extent of interment camps affect Japanese Americans of all ages but also gives younger readers easier access to identify with the author.
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Freshman Year. Book 2. Cover.
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harrowharkninth · 2 years
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Listening to the audiobook for Tegan and Sara’s High School, I’m fascinated to hear them mention some of the same crumbs of lesbian media I grasped at in the early 2000s. Near Christmas, Tegan and Sara find The Murmurs album at Target. That seems so wild, I had to scrounge the internet to get any of The Murmurs CDs after I found out about Leisha Hailey in like 2007. I’m so interested to see if Tegan or Sara will mention any other media that I obsessed over because of the crumbs of queerness.
Update, they mention seeing All Over Me in theaters. This is also wild to me, I dug through the internet to find a free version of this movie also around 2007. I was so crazed about it, a friend bought me the dvd for my birthday. It features Leisha Hailey as the main girl’s new love interest, and actually led me to The Murmurs. I was so excited for representation that I even ordered a The Murmurs tshirt.
It’s wild that to them in highschool this media was new, but to me in highschool I had to dig through defuct websites to find it.
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rickkanelives · 10 days
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My graphic novel Nick Pope begins on August 25, 1987. Here's the Number One for that week!
And you can check out the book by searching "Nick Pope Chris Stanton" on Google!
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pauldouglaslovell · 19 days
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A comic scene from my 80s memoir Empty Corridors: Learning to Fail.
You won't have read anything like it... though you may well have lived through it yourself. Find it online... I require reviews.
If you can't afford to support me, no matter a share will also help. Thanks.
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