pip’s Reviews > All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages > Status Update

“I was not a girl who could ask for things. I was not powder and perfume and lace-trimmed fans. The kind of woman who could wheedle favors from wealthy men wore dresses in the purples and deep pinks of cactus fruit. They wore silk and velvet ribbons tied as necklaces. The owner of blue agave farm sent them sapphire and wild rings. They were not girls in plain huipils” (p. 15).