Foolish Child #119: Lesbian Visibility

In a two panel comic with a gradient purple to blue background, Sarai points out to Dickens that last week was Lesbian Visibility Week and they didn't celebrate. Dickens responds that they got new glasses. Sarai says glasses don't help with lesbian visibility, but then a woman complements Dickens on their glasses. Dickens smiles and Sarai says, "you know that very married woman was not hitting on you, right?" Sarai and Dickens are both black comic characters. .

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Dickens

I am a queer coparenting mama to Dickens Jr. Doodler by day, 911 dispatcher by night. All my favorite shows look better on Tumblr. I am two years and 450K words deep into constructing a fanfic called Ages and I'm never giving up on it. Bering & Wells.

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4 Comments

  1. I’m taking this as a sign from
    The Universe that I should finally just go ahead and buy some new, gayer frames (as I’ve been considering doing that for literal years at this point 😂 )

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