Leah Johnson
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ESSAYS.
After I Came Out, My Mother Left Our Church to Fight for Queer Youth
(Harper's bazaar)
I'M TIRED OF WAITING FOR THE QUEER ROM-COMS WE ACTUALLY DESERVE (cosmo)
We No Longer Need Coming-Of-Age Movies About Straight White Men (
Teen Vogue
)
How Queer YA Novels Taught Me to Write My Own Happy Ending (Autostraddle)
'The Mighty Ducks' Movies Taught Me How to Survive a Pandemic (Catapult)
The Jonas Brothers Have Moved Past Their Purity Rings. Why Can't I?
(BuzzFeed Reader)
How Young Adult Literature Taught Me to Love Like a White Girl (Electric Lit
)
Peter Kavinsky Is Every White Boy I’ve Spent My Adulthood Getting Over (The Establishment
)
"Cash Me Ousside" Shows How Our Society Rewards White Appropriation Of Black Culture (Bustle
)
G
oogle is Free: on the importance of white allies doing their own work
(HuffPost)
PROFILES.
How Quinn Whitney Wilson is Giving Black Women the Big, Beautiful Art They Deserve (R
efinery29)
INTERVIEWS.
Mary H.K. Choi Thinks That Instagram Is Doritos (Electric Lit
)
Lilliam Rivera Writes Young Adults As the Face of Resistance
(
Electric Lit
)
Hanif Abdurraqib Knows the World Is On Fire, but Music Can Still Offer Us a Way Out (Electric Lit
)
In conversation with Morgan Parker on 'Magical Negro' (LUMINA Journal
)
José Olivarez on cultivating conversations more useful than shame
(LUMINA Journal)
In Conversation with
Angel Nafis (Catapult Community
)
World Before Page: A
Conversation With NBA Finalist Jamel Brinkley (The Adroit Journal)
On Location: Bridgett Davis
(WFIU)
SHORT FICTION.
On Mobs and Movements (Auburn Avenue)
The Endless In-Between (Cosmonauts Avenue
)
What Surrounds
(Yes Poetry)
Of Freedom and Ruin (Faded Out
)
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You Should See Me in a Crown
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