What an Over-the-Top, Teen Cable Drama Taught Me About My Sexuality
I didn’t know—or think I knew—any visibly queer women, and watching these fictional women half-existing seemed both comforting and lonely.
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When I didn’t know yet what love felt like, I looked for it everywhere, and didn’t know what it felt like to have found it.
might’ve been in love with her, or something
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I’m not good enough
Can’t wait to get rejected later
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As I saw [Emily], I felt seen for the first time—not watched, not judged, just seen. It felt like a reckoning.
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Annabelle Williams is a writer and college senior living in the best city in America — Philadelphia, PA. She is the editor-in-chief of 34th Street Magazine (34st.com)! Ask her about bad television and good bread.
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