A review by antlersantlers
On Loving Women by Diane Obomsawin

4.0

On Loving Women is a comic (in both senses) collection of queer lady stories, compiled and illustrated by Diane Obomsawin. Her style is really fun and simple, but so charming and fitting to the subject. These stories are full of funny and awkward adolescent angst, but not in an overwrought YA lit way. All the women came of age in the 60s through maybe the 80s, so more than a few of the stories are really touching because of how much things have changed since then. As a collection, it's really strong. Mostly they're about the electricity of first physical contact and how hard you want someone to notice you and weird formative experiences and missteps along the way to wherever you're going.

Like [b:Fun Home|38990|Fun Home A Family Tragicomic|Alison Bechdel|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1327652831s/38990.jpg|911368] or [b:My Dirty Dumb Eyes|16059657|My Dirty Dumb Eyes|Lisa Hanawalt|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1358588674s/16059657.jpg|21846421], I would not recommend reading this on transit.

This also satisfies task 5 of the Book Riot Read Harder Challenge! A book by or about someone that identifies as LGBTQ!