¿QUIERES SER MI NOVIA? / DO YOU WANT TO BE MY GIRLFRIEND?

one day in April 2001, at recess, -and obviously in my imagination.

Addressing non-heteronormativity in childhood is a delicate topic.

Nobody's surprised in the 'love me if you dare' movie or in 'my girl', but rather it's completely romanticized like OH MY GOD A BOY AND A GIRL KISSING OR HOLDING HANDS, SO CUTE.

On the other hand, whenever happens that a girl or a boy shows romantic interest in someone of the same gender, in for example, a Disney movie, the social media burns. suspicious😒

🥀the comment that there is “someone” who wants to indoctrinate your children is the one that amuses me the most (they know it's been doing the job the other way around).

🥀the one about hiding these things from children to protect them and letting them decide when they're older is the one that hurts me the most.

I knew that I liked girls at the nice age of 6-7 years old, and it would have been great not to think that there was something wrong with me, not to want to hide it, not to sigh with relief knowing that at least I also liked boys and that therefore I might seem “normal”. It would have been fantastic to have been able to enjoy my queer teenage years and not have buried myself until I was 23, with great difficulty accepting myself sometimes even to this day.

To think that scenes like this could be more normalized today heals the heart of this 6-year-old girl 💌