She is introduced to the reader when she doesn’t intervene when one of her friends calls Jesse a dyke, smugly justifying it because hey she organized a GLESN speaker last year! Frankly, she’s a spoiled, entitled, conformist, coward. Because she wants to keep both her boyfriend and her girlfriend. She is also making out with Jesse in secret, refusing to let Jesse tell anyone. She has a boyfriend and she is the vice president of the student council. She has progressive activist parents who met at a No Nukes Rally and who’ve supported her unconditionally ever since she came out at age 14, sure she was a lesbian.
She makes manifestos and tapes them up around school calling on people to wake up and fight conformity.
People call her a dyke and she just doesn’t care. She marches to the beat of her own drum, cutting her hair with a Swiss Army knife and wearing giant boots. It was the face of “oh shit, this could go really badly really easily.”įirst there is Jesse. The Difference Between You and Me was pitched to me as a lesbian/bisexual girl closet-case love story.
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