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The Letter Q: Queer Writers' Notes to their Younger Selves by Sarah Moon, Celeste Lecesne, Martin Moran
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jenny_librarian's review against another edition
It’s not a bad book, but I’m definitely not the target audience. It probably makes sense to read this when you’re 13-17 and trying to figure out your place in the world as a queer teenager. It makes a lot less sense when you’re in your 30s and already confident in your queer identity.
This collection of letters was also compiled in 2011, when the acronym barely stretched past the L, G, B and T. Don’t look for the I or the A rep in there, you won’t find any. And because it’s so old in terms of YA literature, parts of it feel disconnected from today’s youth. When authors mention how their younger self shouldn’t worry because one day they’ll have equality for same-gender couples in the US, it feels like a gut punch.
What it achieved, though, was to make me want to write one of those letters to my teen self. To make a path in the part of the acronym left unexplored in this book and reassure younger me that romantic love isn’t the be-all-end-all of life and that she’ll find far more gratifying things than whatever this amatonormative society wants to make her believe.
This collection of letters was also compiled in 2011, when the acronym barely stretched past the L, G, B and T. Don’t look for the I or the A rep in there, you won’t find any. And because it’s so old in terms of YA literature, parts of it feel disconnected from today’s youth. When authors mention how their younger self shouldn’t worry because one day they’ll have equality for same-gender couples in the US, it feels like a gut punch.
What it achieved, though, was to make me want to write one of those letters to my teen self. To make a path in the part of the acronym left unexplored in this book and reassure younger me that romantic love isn’t the be-all-end-all of life and that she’ll find far more gratifying things than whatever this amatonormative society wants to make her believe.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Homophobia, Lesbophobia, and Bullying
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