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Round 1, Match 79 — Sapphic vs. Parilisian

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Happy Black History Month! Here you’ll find Middle Grade and Young Adult books with Black WLW main characters by Black authors. An * indicates WLW authors.

Middle Grade

Hurricane Child by Kheryn Callender

Young Adult

This Is What It Feels Like by Rebecca Barrow *

Cinderella Is Dead by Kalynn Bayron

London Reign by A. C. Britt *

A Phoenix First Must Burn edited by Patrice Caldwell * (‘Untitled’ by Patrice Caldwell *, ‘Untitled’ by Jalissa Corrie and ‘Untitled’ by Danny Lore *)

Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert

Snow in Love: Four Stories by Melissa de la Cruz, Nic Stone *, Aimee Friedman and Kasie West (‘Grounded’ by Nic Stone *)

Full Disclosure by Camryn Garrett *

Dream Country by Shannon Gibney

M+O 4EVR by Tonya Cherie Hegamin *

Dread Nation (Dread Nation #1) by Justina Ireland *

Untitled (Dread Nation #2) by Justina Ireland *

Let’s Talk About Love by Claire Kann

If It Makes You Happy by Claire Kann

Everything Leads to You by Nina LaCour *

Meet Me at the Intersection edited by Rebecca Lim and Ambelin Kwaymullina (‘Almitra Amongst Ghosts’ by Rafeif Ismail * [free online])

37 Things I Love (In No Particular Order) by Kekla Magoon

A Blade So Black (A Blade So Black #1) by L. L. McKinney *

A Dream So Dark (A Blade So Black #2) by L. L. McKinney *

In Search of Happiness by Sonwabiso Ngcowa

The Stars and the Blackness Between Them by Junauda Petrus *

Welcome Home: An Anthology on Love and Adoption edited by Eric Smith (‘Happy Beginning’ by Nic Stone *)

Odd One Out by Nic Stone *

First Human by Vincent Tirado * [free online]

The Mark of Noba (The Sterling Wayfairer #1) by G. L. Tomas *

The City of Fallen Stars (The Sterling Wayfairer #2) by G. L. Tomas *

The Noban King (The Sterling Wayfairer #3) by G. L. Tomas *

End of All Worlds (The Sterling Wayfairer #4) by G. L. Tomas *

The House You Pass on the Way by Jacqueline Woodson *

Orphea Proud by Sharon Dennis Wyeth

Coming out as bisexual can be a uniquely tricky experience. You risk being greeted with confusion, denial or even mockery, in a world which is still struggling to get its head round the idea that someone can be attracted to more than one gender ... Cue the same life of inner turmoil that most gay people experience when they are afraid to come out, but with a twist…

The stigma attached to being bisexual remains strong. Many still cleave to the idea that it’s a coward’s way of coming out as gay, mistakenly believing that “straight privilege” is actually a thing and that saying you’re bi is easier than saying you are exclusively attracted to the same sex. Either this, or they think that it’s a gimmick designed to titillate boyfriends and not a valid identity.