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Honestly? I can say it certainly has given me relief & a safety to express my interest in queer relationships. I've been repressing them for so long/taught that it was wrong. But now it feels liberating

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Yes.

I came of age in the late ‘90s and early 2000s and had to search for scraps of queer rep of any kind. And I was shocked by the lack of diversity in the stories I read.

So, I decided to to change that by writing my own stories filled with Black and brown queer peeps. #queerprompts

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Yes. Once I got myself unknotted, there were huge gaping holes of neglected feelings that seeking out queer fiction is helping heal

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Honest answer: no. Unfortunately the world is at a point where fiction in general can no longer help my mental health. I love it, don't get me wrong. But I don't read it for my health, mental or otherwise.

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Absolutely. I started reading queer books secretly in high school and it helped me understand so many things about myself that had been eating away at me.

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It certainly does! Reading about queer and trans people just being people (and not relegated to subtext) helps me feel more normal, less alone, and more empowered to fight for my own right to exist. #QueerPrompts

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At first I was going to say "no," but I realized that wasn't true. All the different queer books have helped me normalize queer joy. That's been important.

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VERY MUCH SO! I lived in a very conservative place where we just didn't talk about that stuff at all so my world really widened when I found queer rep in books and other media

Absolutely! I came out at 39 and also, being bi, have never felt like I truly fit in anywhere. But positive queer rep in books and media has been a lifeline for pretty much my whole life and has helped me understand so much about myself.

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Oh, def. Seeing queer people in queer media made me feel less alone growing up. (I wasn't a hundred percent sure why at the time, since I didn't come out until I was 22, but yeah...)

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Definitely. I was raised to believe being anything but cis and straight is a sinful choice and that others hurting me for being different was my fault. Reading stories where queer people are fully accepted by others and themselves was revolutionary.

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Very much so. I grew up around a lot of homophobia, and in high school it was horrific. Even defending someone labelled as queer meant being a target, and I got in fights constantly. Some words still make me cringe because they were thrown at me and my closest friends so

Incredibly so. I grew up in a small Southern town where being out was genuinely exhausting. It was often that my only comfort or feeling of understanding was between the pages of a book or comic. It's why I'm so passionate about access to queer books for any age. #QueerPrompts

i'm a little late but that can't stop me from sapphic posting #queerprompts

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DEAD BEATS as a horror novel:

When you run from your ghosts, you might find your demons. Seymour does.

The Murderbot Diaries constitute a significant portion of my comfort reads, so that’s probably a yes.
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#QueerPrompts October 10: World Mental Health Day: Has positive queer rep in books helped your mental health?

#queerprompts free friday ! i dont feel like describing anything which his why i have pages and pages of just dialogue. no tags or anything. luckily i know who is speaking but the reader might get a little lost. you can always keep up with vita though cause she's always yelling