Peter pulls off his worn Oakland A’s hat to shake out his black curls before readjusting it, brim to the back. “This would go so much faster if you would just let me help.” “Toniiiiiii,” Peter whines from his seat in the grass. Until the person across from me speaks up, and I remember with startling clarity that nothing is the same as it has been in summers prior. My summer is ending the way every summer of my life that I can remember has ended: setting up camp in the relentless sun of Farmland Music and Arts Festival’s seven-hundred-acre land next to a person that gets it, gets me. We also have an interview with Leah Johnson to discuss what it means to center the wholeness of Black queer girls in her work, which you can be reading right now! (Well… as soon as you finish this excerpt.) Johnson’s award-winning debut novel, You Should See Me in a Crown, was released in paperback this week! You’re about to read a chapter an excerpt from Rise to the Sun, Leah Johnson’s sophomore novel, currently available for pre-order in advance of its release on July 6, 2021. The Autostraddle Encyclopedia of Lesbian Cinema. LGBTQ Television Guide: What To Watch Now.
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