I went back to my room and googled all the phrases I hadn’t understood. I was directed to a plethora of queer digital mags, and subreddits, and one site dedicated to The Golden Age of Lesbian Tumblr, which apparently had gone downhill after Tumblr had changed its nudity policies. I followed as many radical queer Instagrams as I could find, and I added a bunch of books that were considered “queer canon” to my Christmas list. I knew my mother would love nothing more than to buy them for me, and subsequently read them with me, as she had told me over the summer that she wanted to be a part of “my
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