What would happen if we spoke the truth?

I never really read superhero stuff as a kid.

It's imprecise and insufficient, defining the homosexual as a person whose gender expression is at odds with his or her sex.

Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl.

I still found literary criticism to be a suspect activity

I probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times.

I'd been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents' tragedy