#alejandro heredia

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New Releases: February 2025

This post is sponsored by Dana Hawkins and So Not My Type! Click on the graphic for more info! Scrappy determination clashes with polished privilege. Let the games begin. *** A World Worth Saving by Kyle Lukoff (4th) Covid lockdown is over, but A’s world feels smaller than ever. Coming out as trans didn’t exactly go well, and most days, he barely leaves his bedroom, let alone the house. But the…

New Releases: February 2025

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I’ve come to the realization that even if the world meets my work with total indifference, my relationship to my art cannot be moved by that. I love to write. It is a thing that gives me the most meaning in life. And so, if it is that deep for me, spiritually, intellectually, creatively, then I cannot allow it to be moved by the market, or by a review, or by a lot of readers or no readers or a few readers—whatever it is.

Q&A with Alejandro Heredia, author of Loca

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Loca: A Novel

By Alejandro Heredia.

[theoffingmag]

These days, we understand the power of seeing people who more closely reflect you on television, in books, even on ads. We call this representation and hang on to this idea so much of our hope in the development of self-regard. But back then, years before we came out, before I kissed a boy, before we were critical enough to understand how this show reduced people like us, we found a home there in the longing of our favorite white women.

Alejandro Heredia, “White Girls Were (not) Us”