Julián Is a Mermaid by Jessica Love5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Love herself grew up seeing her aunt with her wife – “two very visible queer role models”. “I kept thinking about what their lives would have been like if they’d received the kind of support from their birth families that they received from their gay mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters.” “So many of the young people in that film had been rejected by their birth families, only to form new families in the form of houses,” said Love. Paris Is Burning, Jennie Livingston’s documentary about New York’s subculture of drag ball “houses” in the 1980s, was also an influence. I became curious about how family and community systems respond. The book has a personal story behind it: when Love first met her partner’s older brother, he had recently transitioned, “so a lot of the stuff that comes up in a family when one member transitions was still sort of fresh. Love told the Guardian that while there had been “the occasional ‘dangerous book spreading the gay agenda’ article” in response to her book, “for the most part the reception has been overwhelmingly positive”. ‘I became curious about how family and community systems respond to someone transitioning’ … Jessica Love ![]()
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