Reading Queer YA: Juliet Takes a Breath

✨ Episode 1: Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby RiveraIn this episode, Professor Peyton dives into a coming-of-age novel that doesn’t flinch from the messy intersections of queerness, race, family, and feminist betrayal.We talk: - What happens when your mother doesn’t see you- What white feminism gets wrong- Being Boricua and queer in Portland- The heartbreak of looking for liberation and finding performance- The sacred act of writing yourself back into existenceFrom Juliet’s whispered coming out in the kitchen to the library girl on a motorcycle, from disappointment to divine rage, from liberal feminists to Gloria Anzaldúa, this episode is a journey through theory, tenderness, and queer becoming.Juliet says, “reading would make me brilliant, but writing would make me infinite.”🔔 Subscribe for weekly book club episodes + revolutionary theory breakdowns.