#mathieu is a witch fic

[shark-myths]

hi!! your girl out boy works have really resonated with me on a deeply personal level, from my gender, sexuality, and my own womanhood. so my question is, what inspired girl out boy besides your own experiences as a woman? like was there literature, etc that resonated with you in such a way that helped influence this? thank uuuu💖

I love this question so much! so much of it was writing from a place of need, so i don’t have perfect recommendations or inspiration, but here are some books you might enjoy! they’re all over the place genre wise, but i feel like they all speak with girl out boy. I also recommend digging into writings about riotgrrl culture, memoirs of women musicians, and listening to all of the bands on all of the assorted girl out boy playlists + +, and diving deeper into them! (bonus: check out @alienfuckeronmain‘s aesthetic girl playlists)

nonfic:

- the riot grrrl collection by lisa darms

- trainwreck by sady doyle

- dead blondes and bad mothers by sady doyle

- hard to do: the surprising, feminist history of breaking up by kelli maria korducki

- hunger makes me a modern girl by carrie brownstein

- hunger by roxane gay

- in the dream house by carmen maria machado

- rage becomes her by soraya chemaly

- i’m afraid of men by vivek shraya

- closer: notes from the orgamic frontier of female sexuality by sarah barmak

fic:

- the power by naomi alderman

- her body and other parties by carmen maria machado

- the future of another timeline by annalee newitz

- the book of the unnamed midwife by meg ellison

- when we were magic by sarah gailey

- you know i’m no good by jessie ann foley

- we were witches by ariel gore

- you know you want this by kristen roupenian

- the nowhere girls by amy reed

- the mere wife by maria davhana headley

- juliet takes a breath by gabby rivera

- red clocks by leni zumas

- the first rule of punk by celia perez

- moxie by jennifer mathieu

- girl mans up by m-e girard

- the stars are legion by kameron hurley

- passing strange by ellen klages

- if not, winter: fragments of sappho

- an accident of stars by foz meadows

- the fair fight by anna freeman

comics:

- bitch planet by kelly sue deconnick

- man-eaters by chelsea cain

- bingo love by tee franklin

- monstress by marjorie liu

- heathen by natasha alterici

- paper girls by brian vaughn

- lumberjanes by noelle stevenson

- nimona by noelle stevenson

- lady killer by joelle jones

- snapdragon by kat leyh

- princess princess ever after by katie o’neill