I Hope You'll Still Love Me

Book excerpt: I Hope You'll Still Love Me documents the multifaceted experience of being South Asian and LGBTQIA+. These narratives explore coming out to yourself and family and friends, falling in love, recovering from heartbreak, battling body image issues, searching for spaces to be simultaneously queer and South Asian, the influence of fanfiction, navigating religion, the demand for perfection, transracial adoption, being transgender and South Asian, gender confirmation surgery, finding community, and so much more. Through tales of vulnerability, heartbreak, and triumph, contributors lay their truth out for readers, to tell those going through similar experiences that they are not alone, and to guide loved ones who are invested in understanding.