For many years, we were censored from telenovelas, and until today, any kind of kiss between people of the same gender is received with some rage from part of our society.īut change is happening. So when I started writing my own fiction many years ago they were completely different from the stories I write today.īrazilian television, books, any kind of media we have, doesn’t treat us LGBTQIAP+ folks in the best way. The first time I’ve heard the full acronym LGBTQIAP+ was in college and I only read my first F/F book a few years ago. Of course I knew gay people existed, but I didn’t know I was allowed to be like them. I didn’t know I could like women when I was as a teenager. When my friends talked about wanting these things with men, I felt uncomfortable, broken, alone. I want to kiss women, marry women, have the epic love story with women. It took me until my twenties to understand what was this barrier that existed between me and most of the other teenage girls. One of my most poignant memories from my teenage years was watching my friends just talking to each other and feeling like they were speaking in another language I couldn’t understand. It makes you feel like something is wrong with you. There is something about growing up without seeing yourself on any kind of media that alienates you from the world. It doesn’t really need any introduction, so I’m gonna shove off and let Maria take it away! Hollis back to the site today with a very cool post on Brazilian f/f writers. I’m extremely excited to welcome author-blogger M.
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