Galleys: • Print Galleys distributed to reviewers and full-color blads available at NY Public Library Programming at NYComicCon, ALA Annual, and at various Comic Arts Festivals. • Digital Galleys available on Edelweiss. National TV and radio campaign: • “Morning Edition,” “Fresh Air,” “All Things Considered,” “Weekend Edition,” “Dan Savage” “Weekend All Things Considered,” “Here and Now,” “On Point,” WAMC’s “The Book Show,” WNYC “All of It with Allison Stewart”, “The Takeaway with Tanzina Vega”, NPR Books, etc. National print campaign: • Advocate, Out, Original Plumbing, New York Times Book Review, T Magazine, The New Yorker, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, Bookpage, Library Journal, Bitch, People, Bust, The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, etc. Online/social media campaign: • The Comics Beat, Grovel, Smash Pages, Novel Novice, Book Crushin, The Rumpus, Teen Vogue, Shelf Abuse, Reddit, It’s All Comics To Me, Book Toss, Metrosource, Back2Stonewall, FTM, Pink News, Trans-Health.com, Best Gay New York, BGay.com, Bill on GLBT Issues, Boy Culture, Daily Dose of Queer, DanNation Gay Blog, Dapper Q, EDGE, examiner.com, Faithfully LGBT, Finally Out, Gay League, Gay.com, Gay.net, GBMNews, GLAAD Blog, Homoground, homorazzi.com, LGBT POV, LGBTQ Nation, Metro Weekly Online, Instinct, MoxieQ, MUSED Magazine Online, NewNowNext, Out & About Today - Newschannel 5+, OUT Online, Out There – MSNBC, OUTTAKE BLOG, Popnography, Pride Entertainment Online, Huffington Post Queer Voices, Queerty, TakePart, The Homo Life, Towelroad, Curve, Pride, Gay Star News, and more. Potential strategic partnerships: • Aids Healthcare Foundation, FLUX, The Trevor Project, GLADD, Trans Equality, Lambda, GLSEN, The Phluid Project and more. General tour info: • Regional New York Tri-State area tour. Promotion through the author’s Instagram account: • @sharonleedelacruz Bookseller/Library promotions: • Attendance and panel participation at FlameCon, the Brooklyn Book Festival, the Black Comic Book Festival, the Bronx Book Festival and more • Blad giveaways to librarians and educators who attend the NY Public Library Programming at NYComicCon.  

“The queer community is lucky to have Sharon on our side, using her skills and passions to create a better world for all of us.”—Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

A collection of lively autobiographical comics guiding the reader through an understanding of queerness and what it means to one woman of color.

In this delightfully compelling full-color graphic memoir, the author shares her process of undoing the effects of a patriarchal, colonial society on her self-image, her sexuality, and her concept of freedom. Reflecting on the ways in which oppression was the cause for her late bloom into queerness, we are invited to discover people and things in the author's life that helped shape and inform her LGBTQ identity. And we come to an understanding of her holistic definition of queerness.