Status Updates From I Kissed Shara Wheeler

“One kid comes out and before you know it everyone else feels empowered to be themselves from the football dudebros to the suspiciously single history teacher, everyone clapped” is so incongruent with my lived experience of quiet acceptance that every time a YA book does it I feel like we’ve slipped into an alternate dimension. I love hopeful queer stories but the circumstances feel so fabricated (classic McQuiston)