Happy #biawarenessweek week sweet angels !! 💗💜💙 I’m reposting this comic made by myself and the amazing @hellomynameiswednesday many moons ago because - funnily - it’s still relevant + I thought it might help someone experiencing similar feelings today! I hope that what we made continues to encourage conversations and helps people to feel less alone. 🌈 Being a queer women / non-binary / afab person perceived as a woman who is attracted to women in a heteronormative world is hard. The already difficult process of understanding yourself as deviating from the “norm” is made even harder by society’s expectations of how people perceived as women should interact with one another. It personally took me a really long time to even accept to myself that I’m bi/pan and that my attraction to women is more than just flirty drunken trysts. Especially since this idea was so normalised and fetishised by my peers. Throughout my teenage years, my interest in women often manifested as jealousy because I’d learned that other women exist for me to compete against for the attention of cis men. My attraction to women was also always different to my attraction to men - it was softer, stemming from admiration. And I was a different version of myself around them - taking up more space, more confident. I didn’t shrink the masculine aspects of my personality like I did to accommodate the female fantasy of a male partner. But this all led me to believe that my attraction to women wasn’t valid, wasn’t as likely to lead to a long-term relationship consisting of the hetero power dynamics I had grown-up internalising. If you’re feeling confused - if you’re sleeping with that man and just don’t think you’ll ever be satisfied - let me remind you that attraction to women is 100% valid and worthy of your time and attention. But that there’s also no rush to figure it out or put label on yourself. While this helps some people to feel part of a community, it isn’t the status quo. Don’t let society tell you that your love for women can’t be as fulfilling, if not more for many, than being with a cis man. And treat yourself with love through this process angels. 🌻🌞 DM for alt text.