Interview with Writer & Drag Queen Dan Clay May 6, 2023.

Star Trek (But Make it Gay): DS9 May 12, 2023.

They shared a very awkward first kiss that didn’t really go anywhere.

Coach Dupont and Celeste (Annie’s mom) were best friends in high school and raised all kinds of hell in the ‘90s.

Jonah smells like garlic, one of his favorite foods.

Her favorite bands include: the Dung Beatles, the Marthas, Sweet Rose Riot, Charon, Land-O-Goshens, Dead Donna Reed, and the Twits.

For Annie, we had originally planned to plaster her stuff in stickers from her favorite fictional bands, and I even sketched up logos for all of them, but didn’t have time to design the stickers before things went to print.

Annie loves manatees and once swam with them in the Hillsborough River.

Bebe worries it makes her “not really Cuban,” so she doubles down on trying to master Cuban cooking-while her dad wont admit it out loud, she’s already a better cook than his mother was. When her grandparents emigrated to Florida, they were worried speaking Spanish would label their kids as outsiders and end up with them being made fun of in school, so they refused to teach bebe’s father or his sisters any Spanish.

Bebe is half-Cuban on her father’s side, but neither she nor her father speak much Spanish.

' Cheer Up! is joyful and insistent in its portrayal of queer teens like Annie and Bebe as worthy of love and respect, imperfections and all. Pacat and Johanna the Mad’s Fence, this peppy yet angsty graphic novel irresistibly reclaims sports for queer and trans audiences. 'In the vein of Ngozi Ukazu’s Check, Please! or C.S.

'Readers will root for these girls as they navigate the waters of self-confidence, love, and cheerleading.'

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Cheer Up by Crystal Frasier