Unmasking Family Secrets and Fierce Truths: Jackie Domenus’s Raw, Unfiltered Memoir Challenges Everything You Think You Know
“For me, queer felt like a warm blanket — one to neatly spread over all the explanations I’d always felt I owed people. Queer was a roof over my head when it seemed the world wouldn’t stop storming around me and I needed shelter. Queer was a place I could be surrounded by comfort and love. For me, queer was a home.”
I read No Offense as a PDF, and I am tempted to share screenshots. Jackie’s writing prompted page after page of highlighted sentences and circled paragraphs. As a reader, I was shouting my affirmations and applauding Jackie’s different journeys, and as much as I want to share much more of Jackie’s intelligence and self-kindness from each of the seventeen essays within No Offense with everyone, let me instead skip ahead to the final essay, the final coming-out moment.
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