June 17, 2025
"Tomboy" is really the obsolete way to call a nonbinary woman
I don't mean to label anyone. You may identify as a tomboy but not as nonbinary or vice versa. However, while I always knew I was a tomboy, it took a reader calling the main character of my novels "gender confused" to make me realize that I am, in fact, nonbinary.
So I leave this thought here, in case you needed to hear it.
Unveiling layers of your identity is incredibly validating and reassuring. You got this!
Working on the new edition of my first two novels (below), following "tomboy" Lee growing up in 90s Italy, I'm amused I did not realize this sooner ;P