I came into my queerness late in life. Well, later, at any rate, than the teenagers I wrote about in my sapphic YA fantasy,
Sweet & Bitter Magic. Yet after I learned that my heart was not surrounded by a wall, but rather, a gate just waiting to be opened, after I met the woman who is now my wife, as I explored the world of women who love women, I realized there had always been something inherently sapphic about the way I had lived my life.
There are no shortage of ways people attempt to explain away the existence of sapphic couples: “best friends,” “roommates,” “gal pals,” “sisters” are only a few of the ways strangers have tried to classify the familiarity, love, and safety present in my marriage. And strangers are so desperate to identify us that once, after a quick shutdown of “we’re not sisters,” someone moved on to a hesitant “so you’re… co-workers?”
Sweet and Bitter Magic by Adrienne Tooley (March 9)
This character driven sapphic fantasy is about two outcasts who find each other while a fight for a kingdom rages. This book is highly recommended for anyone who was as enamored by
Never Tilting World by Rin Chupeco and
Crier’s War by Nina Varela.
Oni Press
The long-awaited sequel to the endearing and quirky graphic novel,
Sheets, Brenna reintroduces readers to the Marjorie and her ghostly laundromat and tackles what it means to fit in, finding friends in the most unlikely places, and growing pains (even ones of the haunted variety).