Queer YA media provides queer adults with an opportunity for healing.
Having our true selves seen and known by those who matter most to us.
Though painful, this grief and other emotions evoked by queer YA media does present an opportunity for queer adults that is often overlooked when we are watching, listening to, or reading these stories: We can use queer YA as an intentional tool for our own healingWe all carry within us these wounds of our younger selves. For queer people, our wounds are often those of deeply internalized
caused by anti-queerness and grief for not getting to have had the adolescence and upbringing we wished could have been. The feelings we feel when witnessing the teens inand other queer YA, in many ways are feelings both of our current adult selves and those of our younger selves. We feel our adult selves’ response to observing the lives of queer teen characters and we may also feel our younger selves’ response .
Here is an exercise queer adults could consider before pressing play or opening the page to begin the next queer YA media pulling them in: What if we intentionallyour 12-year-old, 14-year-old, or 17-year-old self to mind and into the room with us and see what happens as we engage in contemporary queer YA together?
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