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For #pridemonth2020, I'm highlighting 30 openly LGBTQ+ authors. Jacqueline Woodson is a prolific author who has loved writing ever since childhood, & always knew she would be a writer. Her works have received multiple literary awards, including ALA Best Book for Young Adults & the Hans Christian Anderson award, & she was the Library of Congress's National Ambassador for Young People's Literature 2018-19. #lgbtq #lgbtvoices #blackvoices #pocvoices

I know. I am supposed to be deeply broken, incapable of love or trust or passion. But I am not, and part of why that is so is the nature of the stories I told myself to survive. Like the stories my mama told herself, and my aunt Dot and my cousin Billie, my stories shaped my life. Of all the stories I know, the meanest are the stories the women I loved told themselves in secret - the stories that sustained and broke them.