This Week in Reading The Fixed Stars by Molly Wizenberg I’ve been aware of this story since Molly Wizenberg first came out on her blog, Orangette, in 2016. I was captivated by her story: a woman who had been straight her entire life, with a happy, decade long marriage, two restaurants she co-owned with her husband, and a 4-year-old daughter, who woke up one day, and was suddenly a lesbian. It was a queer narrative that felt refreshingly different from the ones I had been fed by gay movies and books. Like her food writing, her coming out was matter-of-fact and unfussy. Her story was not one of closeted repression and teenage experimentation. She had loved—truly
choosing queerness
choosing queerness
choosing queerness
This Week in Reading The Fixed Stars by Molly Wizenberg I’ve been aware of this story since Molly Wizenberg first came out on her blog, Orangette, in 2016. I was captivated by her story: a woman who had been straight her entire life, with a happy, decade long marriage, two restaurants she co-owned with her husband, and a 4-year-old daughter, who woke up one day, and was suddenly a lesbian. It was a queer narrative that felt refreshingly different from the ones I had been fed by gay movies and books. Like her food writing, her coming out was matter-of-fact and unfussy. Her story was not one of closeted repression and teenage experimentation. She had loved—truly