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Cheer Up! Love and Pompoms
by Crystal Frasier, Val Wise
This graphic novel was so sweet and precious and adorable and beautiful and- *deep breath* I CANNOT SAY ENOUGH GOOD THINGS. A precious sapphic romance between a fat, punk, antisocial girl and a beautiful, shy, sunshine-n-rainbows trans girl? Be still, my heart. The art is lovely and sweet, the story is wholesome, the character cast in inclusive and varied, and I just adored this with my whole sweet-queer-girls-getting-the-happy-endings-they-deserve obsessed heart.
Above all else, Bebe's character and the commentary brought up by things she was facing: the hyper-exposure of trans women, the way trans women are held to unfair standards and expected to be flawless 100% of the time, the struggle of having parents who are trying to be accepting but haven't quite figured it out yet, the way people can turn their trans loved ones into tokens to be objectified instead of cherishing them for who they truly are... There are so many good discussions within this short little story. ♥
✨ Representation: fat sapphic MC, trans questioning biracial MC, multiple BIPOC and/or queer side characters
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Thank you so much to the publisher for providing me with this review copy in exchange for an honest review!
Above all else, Bebe's character and the commentary brought up by things she was facing: the hyper-exposure of trans women, the way trans women are held to unfair standards and expected to be flawless 100% of the time, the struggle of having parents who are trying to be accepting but haven't quite figured it out yet, the way people can turn their trans loved ones into tokens to be objectified instead of cherishing them for who they truly are... There are so many good discussions within this short little story. ♥
✨ Representation: fat sapphic MC, trans questioning biracial MC, multiple BIPOC and/or queer side characters
✨ Content warnings for:
Spoiler
transphobia, fat-shaming, sexual harassment (all challenged)Thank you so much to the publisher for providing me with this review copy in exchange for an honest review!