Please let me third everything here! I know how hard it is to give yourself permission to write, and the idea that there are so many books already and why on earth would one's own contributions be needed and what would one write about anyway. But I can tell you that first, diversity of many identity aspects is needed, and I would bet that there are numerous things about you (identity/life experience/life challenge-wise) that do not have as much representation as they should have, and there are probably things you WOULD want to communicate to a younger person growing up with or dealing with some of the challenges that you have faced, that no one else has quite said yet. And that is the other thing, which is that there are many types of diversity, one being the fact that you as a human being have a perspective that is completely unique and utterly yours alone. The way YOU SEE things can be expressed by ONLY YOU, and as has been said, yours is a perspective which it would truly benefit humanity to have out there.

AND you do beautiful and amazing service to Story in your work and in your posts and articles and in all the ways you connect people with books. You inspire me! And as long as you keep making time to open the gate, the stories that want to be told through you will come out. 💗💗💗