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Crystal Frasier, Val K. Wise: Cheer Up (2021, Oni Press)

Annie is a smart, antisocial lesbian starting her senior year of high school who’s under …

The Teen Movie I've Been Waiting For

Cheer Up reads like a classic movie about teens. There's a central conflict involving belonging and teamwork and romance and self-discovery in a high school, but instead of whatever the heck we had in the 80s and 90s we have protagonists who are queer/trans. This book isn't here to change the world or is about an agonizing coming out experience. It's a cute story about teenagers, one of whom just so happens to be taking puberty blockers. It's a story about the proper growing up experience that many of us never got to have and that many can have in a gentler world.