.eiffeltyler caught up with HaleyJakobson ahead of her novel’s release to chat about 'Old Enough,' the tensions that come with finding yourself, and creating queer family.
She’s a sophomore in college, thoroughly out as bisexual amongst her new chosen family at school, but not far enough removed from her high school self as to feel fully-realized as an adult. It’s an experience Jakobson captures so tenderly that readingfeels like holding up a mirror to your younger self, no matter how far removed you are from that period in your life.
“I am very openly a survivor and so much of my journey into that identity has been parsing out the different narratives that told me why my version of survivorhood didn't count,” she says. “All the ways in which we talk about what assault looks like, sounds like, does such a disservice to so many people who experience assault and non consensual relationships with people.
For me, as a Brooklyn-based, bisexual, queer person entrenched in this community, I certainly had impostor syndrome for a long time. I don't believe that Sav in any way is me — I see her more as a little sister that I've shepherded into the world — but we did both grow up in suburbia and in places where the expectations were we're not as fluid and as expansive as as now I see that they can be.
Something that I learned much later in life is how necessary conflict resolution is — especially as folks who are assigned female at birth, we are not shepherded into the world with an understanding that disagreement and tension and conflict can be a very good thing.
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