Why I write

I write because there isn't enough good LGBTQ+ fiction in the world. Being queer doesn't have to be a coming out story, not all of us are scared of what we are. Some of us are silently out, while others are coughing from the closet. And that's fine, but being queer isn't what defines us as people, our lives will never revolve around that one aspect of our beings.

It's hard to find a role model when everything is white washed, cis washed, and het washed. I am absolutely none of those things, but when faced with a lick of rep I fall into the hands of people that will never follow through. And it's probably why I love the tv Avatar series.

In Avatar the Last Airbender, there wasn't any LQBT rep, but there was strong people of color. This meant a lot even without me knowing it, I was watching a series and it felt right. There wasn't an excessive amount of white men on screen, my favorite character being Katara. A confident woman with a craving to learn, and at the time, I thought that was who I was.

The next installment was more mature in theme than ATLA, this one called Legend of Korra. The thing about this series is for the frist time, I saw bisexual representation in a kids show. It didn't astound me in any way because I was a pansexual child and that just made sense to me. But now, looking at the series given to people my age, non-heterosexuality is generally treated as a joke.

We may make gay jokes, but we are not for anybody to poke fun at. Being queer isn't humorous, we aren't a cirus to here for your entertainment. We are people and as people we are permitted a chance to experience the world as any others would. We have a right to go on fantasy adventures and slay dragns, we have a right to pilot a spaceship, we have a right to exist in the creative scape as everybody else does.

So that is why I write.