But was membership of the second sex useful to the public project of Being Sontag? Judging from the evidence here, it was an ambivalent passport, sometimes flashed at the border and sometimes disparaged. Although she declined to identify publicly as a lesbian, most of her sexual relationships were with women. She liked, loved, lusted after and admired plenty of individual women. Should she get on board or scuttle the ship? I’m not talking about the private realm, of course. So head to the website of your local independent bookstore, order some books, and prepare to get lost in the endless bounty of art and entertainment this community provides.D id Susan Sontag like women? I’m not so sure she did, which made the arrival of feminism in the early 1970s a complicated prospect. There are, of course, so many more LGBTQ women writers to read and celebrate, from Roxane Gay to Jeanette Winterson to Audre Lorde to Dorothy Allison to Maggie Nelson. Rivera is also the writer of Marvel Comics’ AMERICA series, which follows queer Latina superhero, America Chavez. Throughout the book, Juliet learns important lessons about advocacy and intersectionality, all while navigating coming out to her family, overcoming her first heartbreak, and ultimately, learning to love herself exactly as she is. The book follows Juliet Milagros Palante, a lesbian Puerto Rican college student from the Bronx who takes an internship in Portland, Oregon with her hero, a gay feminist author who is everything Juliet wants to be-or so she thinks. If you’re looking to get lost in a young adult novel, check out Gabby Rivera’s Juliet Takes a Breath. Her book provides an uplifting message that change might be coming faster than we think. From Utah to Indiana, Allen spends time in queer bars, community centers, and more in an effort to show that queerness exists beyond big, liberal cities.
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