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I’m a Wild Seed Q&A with Sharon Lee De La Cruz
Where did the title of your book I’m a Wild Seed come from?
I chose the title “I’m a Wild Seed” to pay respects to my favorite book “Wild Seed” by Octavia Butler. This particular book made me fall in love with speculative fiction and think more expansively about identity. Octavia is a genius storyteller, who plays with sexuality and gender in her characters, creating worlds where we can imagine role reversal. She has inspired me to keep telling and creating stories.
How does your book explore the intersectionality of your experience as a queer woman of color?
It’s a graphic memoir that takes you through my childhood in the South Bronx and explores how I learned about my queerness and Blackness in mostly White spaces. This book isn’t about the happy ending of realizing who you are, but about the complexities and humor of navigating your sexual and ethnic identity as an adult who is still coming of age.
Why are you drawn to comics as a medium?
I like making comics because of the power of the combination of image and text. I was never a confident writer, but when I began creating comics, I felt safe enough to practice expressing myself in words and to get better at writing. I enjoy comics because they are approachable. Comics are a really good way of taking a serious and complicated subject and packaging it in a way that is not only digestible but also entertaining.
What kind of impact and message do you hope this book might have on your readers’ lives?
I hope that this book makes you laugh, makes you smile, makes you angry, makes you want to donate to grassroots organizations which support transgender folks, makes you want to hug your mother, and makes you think more expansively about your freedom.
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A provocative and powerful YA graphic memoir!
Named one of "10 Teen Reads for Black History Month" by Kirkus Reviews and one of the "Most Anticipated Reads for 2021" by Ms. Magazine I'm a Wild Seed is a provocative and powerful full-color YA graphic memoir by the multi-disciplinary artist and activist Sharon Lee De La Cruz. A collection of spirited autobiographical comics guiding the reader through an understanding of queerness and what it means to one woman of color, I’m a Wild Seed conveys the author’s process of undoing the effects of a patriarchal, colonial society on her self-image, her sexuality, and her concept of freedom. The author's colorful and personable story invites us along their roadmap of self-discovery which sheds light unto the people, places and things in her life that helped shape and inform the author's LGBTQ identity. Through this journey we gain a better understanding of Dee De La Cruz's holistic definition of queerness which is drawn by deep diving into the intersectionality of the author’s gender, race, sexuality and most unique of all: their point of view.
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- Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2021Format: Paperback
Named one of "10 Teen Reads for Black History Month" by Kirkus Reviews and one of the "Most Anticipated Reads for 2021" by Ms. Magazine
A provocative and powerful YA graphic memoir!
Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2021
I'm a Wild Seed is a provocative and powerful full-color YA graphic memoir by the multi-disciplinary artist and activist Sharon Lee De La Cruz. A collection of spirited autobiographical comics guiding the reader through an understanding of queerness and what it means to one woman of color, I’m a Wild Seed conveys the author’s process of undoing the effects of a patriarchal, colonial society on her self-image, her sexuality, and her concept of freedom.
The author's colorful and personable story invites us along their roadmap of self-discovery which sheds light unto the people, places and things in her life that helped shape and inform the author's LGBTQ identity. Through this journey we gain a better understanding of Dee De La Cruz's holistic definition of queerness which is drawn by deep diving into the intersectionality of the author’s gender, race, sexuality and most unique of all: their point of view.
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