"I was lucky enough to have an accepting community already in my early teen years. I came out to my friends as gay when I was fifteen, almost immediately the day after I realized that I was. If it hadn't been for the safe environment I was in, I would never have even considered the possibility that I wasn't a cisgender heterosexual woman. At home, I'd never heard anyone discuss any LGBTQ+ matters, & it was only because my friends were asking these very questions about themselves that I learned being cishet wasn't the default, & that I discovered words that represented me & that I could claim as my own." Caroline Grand-Clement is a queer seventeen year old, half-time poet, half-time student at an international school in Lyon, France. She dreams of art in all forms, falling stars, & late night conversations. She hopes to make a change in the world one word at a time.
Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Beyond the Shallows, an anthology by L’Éphémère Review, Rose Quartz Journal, Goat's Milk Magazine, Vessel Press, and elsewhere. You can find her on Twitter, Tumblr or Instagram @octopodeshearts.
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