Danika Ellis

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@DanikaEllis Hi Danika, any chance to help this family by sharing :gofund.me/aae22983

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@manic_femme @margotwood I truly thought the throuple was happening.😭

@margotwood like i’d have been fine had they just made them a throuple with jamie if they had to change it up but nope just totally ruined 😭

@JaeFiction I really don't know why the "lesbian fiction is bad" myth persists. Especially now, when there's more sapphic fiction available than ever before in almost any genre. I can only assume these people don't know how to find good books in general.

Yes, there's some great sapphic fanfiction out there, but there are also many awesome published sapphic books available. If you haven't found them yet, you are looking in the wrong places. There are many THOUSANDS of sapphic books published by small presses and indies. 1/2

@sassy_librarian That's incredible! It's so easy to feel isolated going up against hate, and I can only imagine how it felt to get this thoughtful show of support.

Sapphic books by Black authors out in 2024: lesbrary.com/sapphic-books-… Let me know if I missed any or made any mistakes! Reminder: these all have sapphic main characters, but they don't all have sapphic romances.

It's January, which means the #2024ReadHarderChallenge has officially begun! See you in the comments section! bookriot.com/cozy-fantasy-b…

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Here are my most anticipated LGBTQ books of 2024! ourqueerestshelves.substack.com/p/most-anticip…

@exsixtwosix Thank you!! I love being cited in queer academic articles.

@DanikaEllis That’s wildly badass!! You earned it!

Just found out an article of mine was cited in a paper called "And They Were Roommates: An analysis of 'straightwashing' history and its impact on modern meme culture, through exploration of r/SapphoAndHerFriend". Incredible.

@QueenOfRats There is so much pressure on social media to voice your opinion quickly and confidently about everything that happens in the world. It's taken a long time to realize it's always better for me to wait a few days until I actually understand the context before speaking (if at all).

@benjanun_s Tell Me I'm Worthless by Alison Rumfitt, Boys Weekend by Mattie Lubchansky, and Falling Back in Love with Being Human by Kai Cheng Thom

@sapphicfrances So many! An Island Princess Starts a Scandal, Going Bicoastal, Bookshops and Bonedust, A Haunting On the Hill, What Stalks Among Us, Boys Weekend, The Low Low Woods, Bail & Oregano, Imogen Obviously, Forget Me Not— were there specific genres you wanted? Or just F/F romances?

I've barely read anything (at least for me) this year 😭 reader friends, what's your favorite sapphic book that came out in 2023?

@dancingofpens It shouldn't be true, and it's so infuriatingly unfair that it is. Your covers are all gorgeous, but Friday I'm in Love in particular, I always think about how powerful that must be for so many queer Black girls to see on shelves. You shouldn't have to trailblaze, but you are.

If I were a pretty white girl, the fact that I sold my first book before I was out of high school would be a big deal. And I would be treated way differently.

I think about this a lot. I don't mean to be very "woe is me," because I have a great career, but there are Black girls on all three of my books. If they weren't there, I honestly think they'd sell better. I think it would be a bigger deal that I'm 23 and have three books.

@dancingofpens Truly one of the best leads in a romance movie I've ever seen. I wish he was in more romances!

Jack Black in The Holiday....

@QueenOfRats I'm fine with a negative review for a book, even if it's for purely subjective reasons, but saying no queer person is like this when it's written by a queer person, and then saying it is too terrible to even give away, that it belongs in the trash... 😬

@manic_femme Any review that says, "No queer person is like this" when the book is written by a queer person... 🙃

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