I just finished reading “I Kissed Shara Wheeler”. This book affected me so much. Being a queer kid at a religious school when you aren’t religious is torture. Being a queer kid at a religious school when you ARE religious is torture. The experience is something that I have literally never seen in a book before. I have never felt so seen reading any piece of literature in my life. Casey McQuiston got EVERY SINGLE ASPECT of going to a private christian school right. mandatory chapel? fucking bible class? gendered dress code? the homophobia? the racism? the rules and regulations that make no fucking sense? Not only the good, but some of the bad too.
Casey McQuinston writing I Kissed Shara Wheeler: So I wrote this book and its going to call out and maybe emotionally injure the gays, the burnt out gift kids,people with religious trauma and people wanting genuine friendships xoxo enjoy.
Am I just supposed to move on from a book where there is a renegade prom queen, a bisexual with a general disdain for everyone, a hopeless romantic songwriter who’d do anything rather than show a hint of emotion and a emotional support jock with sunshine energy who might be genderqueer?? I think not.
Nothing hits harder than the absolute yearning to be a part of a queer friend group. To have a bunch of people who you can truly be yourself with. To have what they had in HeartstopperandI Kissed Shara Wheeler.
There was this one weekend, a million summers ago, when I sat on the shore drinking a frozen limeade, and I realized the only thing I wanted to look at was the way the sun hit the girls swimming in the lake. The problem has always been this: When I look at you, I taste lime, and I see light on water.
y’all i just finished i kissed shara wheeler and ya girl is drowning in the conservative-religious-southern-small-town-closeted-queer nostalgia right now oh my god
