As a child, Jesse found respite from their religiously conservative community within the pages of manga. Hidden in those words and images were tales of unapologetic queer love that affirmed their identity, even when their family would not.
Jesse always knew that they felt attraction to people of different genders, and when they first heard the word “pansexual” as a teenager, something just clicked.
These days, Jesse channels their “queer angst” from high school into everything they do; be it by drawing canonically trans and gender non-conforming characters, writing their identities into music, or teaching their coworkers about queer and trans lives.
This episode mentions intersex surgeries, familial rejection, conflation of queer identity with pedophilia, and discrimination on the basis of religion.
This is Jesse Lee-Young on that Good Gay Manga.
SOCIAL
Twitter: @OliveDKnight
Bandcamp: Fempathy;
Twitter: @FempathyBand
Facebook: @FempathyBand
LINKS
InterACT | Advocates for Intersex Youth’s guide to being an ally to intersex folks
Annet Negesa - Intersex athlete suing World Athletics after being coerced into surgery
