Lesbian Visibility Day

Happy Lesbian Visibility Day! 🧡🤍🩷

I probably say this a lot, but visibility is so important to me—as someone who grew up, unable to make sense of what I felt or who I was, and feeling utterly broken because of it, as someone whose only understanding of her own identity came through the lens of hatred and bigotry.

Because of that, lesbian visibility has become one of my biggest passions in writing (right up there with mental health). It’s why I write lesbian pirates. It’s why I wrote Kara, Rose’s out and proud lesbian, Viking girlfriend from my vampire series. It’s why I shove more and more lesbians into everything I write. 😅

Lesbian is not an obscene word. It’s an identity, and when you treat an identity as if it’s obscene, you treat people as if they’re obscene.

I accepted that once. I let people convince me that I didn’t deserve to exist in broad daylight—that I belonged in the closet.

I don’t intend to sit by while others are made to feel that way. LGBTQ+ people are people, and people deserve to exist and feel safe to exist. It’s that simple. 🧡🤍🩷