there is room for all of you here

cover reveal of my fifth book inside ✨

hi friend,

a couple of weeks after i started dating my now girlfriend, the phrase “there is room for all of me here” popped into my head.

they were the first person i experienced romance with who wasn’t a man, and even though i was just getting to know them, almost immediately i felt a shift in my identity and journey of knowing myself.

when queerness is part of your identity but you’ve only been able to internally validate it so far, it can throw you off balance sometimes. it requires a lot of self-confidence and trust in yourself in a world where straight is the default.

meeting jess felt like turning a corner. seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. seeing myself as a kid again. seeing myself just like me, and nothing else.

while this relationship validated a huge part of myself, it also added on to a lot of the work i’d been doing over the past year. writing about anger. accepting that there are some things i will always be upset about. validating the fact that humans are meant to have a full range of emotions, that i can hold frustration and love in both my hands. that it’s okay to have complicated feelings about everything.

my newest book, there is room for all of you here, is a celebration of all the parts of ourselves. from accepting all our emotions to feeling deeper into our identities, it’s a culmination of the self-discovery that turning thirty brought me.

i hope it brings you more acceptance of yourself.

and if you’re in love, two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual or straight, you’ll be happy to know that this has the most love poems i’ve ever put into a book.

and if you’re single, no worries, it’s full of sad girl sh*t too.

stay tuned for another letter on april 26 when it’s available for purchase.

xoxo,
m