Heyyy all! Looking for a memoir about growing up lesbian or bi 🙂
TLDR: Looking for a memoir about growing up lesbian or bisexual and coming to terms with your identity in a world that doesn’t accept you.
I do speech and debate, and part of the event I do is finding pieces of literature and stitching them together to provide a message. I’m doing mine on queer violence next year.
Looking for something raw and real. Growing up and trying to come to terms with your identity in a world that doesn’t accept you. Either with coming out scenes that don’t go well, queer violence from kids at school, etc. you get the gist. Thinking a memoir would work best for this, but if anyone has any other suggestions let me know!
Specifically looking for lesbian or bi works because I’m a bi girl and I don’t feel like it’s exactly my place to talk about or portray gay men or trans people. Nothing against them!!! I just don’t think it’s my place to do that. It’s more of a speech thing than anything as well.
by Lilac_Dollie
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Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? – Jeanette Winterson
ETA: lesbian
Times I Knew I Was Gay by Eleanor Crewes
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
In The Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado is a memoir about the author, a bisexual woman, and her relationship with her abusive lesbian partner. It’s written in a very interesting and experimental kind of way and it’s fucking incredible
Tegan and Sara’s High School
Brandi Carlile’s Broken Horses
High School by Tegan and Sara Quin!
Roses in the Mouth of a Lion – novel not memoir, but it’s based on the author’s own lifeÂ
A Sharp Endless Need by Mac Crane
Might not be quite as raw as some other suggestions here but I really enjoyed it. There are definitely some scenes with Liv’s mother that were very harsh.
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson
We Have Always Been Here by Samra Habib
Kissing Girls on Shabbat by Sara Glass
Notes from a Crocodile by Qiu Miaojin (fiction, but based on the author’s experiences)