On Top Of Glass My Stories As A Queer Girl In Figure Skating

Description: An insightful memoir from a figure skating champion about her life as a bisexual professional athlete perfect for readers of Fierce by Aly Raisman and Forward by Abby Wambach. Karina Manta has had a busy few years: Not only did she capture the hearts of many with her fan - favorite performance at the U. S. Figure Skating Championships she also became the first female figure skater on Team US a to come out as queer. Her Modern Love essay " I Can't Hate My Body if I Love Hers" was published in the New York Times and then she joined the circus - - Cirque du Soleil's on - ice show AXEL. Karina's memoir covers these experiences and much more. Attending a high school with 4,000 students you'd expect to know more than two openly gay students but Karina didn't meet an out - lesbian until she was nearly seventeen - - let alone any other kind of queer woman. But this isn't just a story about her queerness. It's also a story about her struggle with body image in a sport that prizes delicate femininity. It's a story about panic attacks and first crushes and all the crushes that followed and it's a story about growing up feeling different than everybody around her and then realizing that everyone else felt different too.
Title: On Top Of Glass My Stories As A Queer Girl In Figure Skating
Barcode: 9780593308493
Publication Date: 12/19/2023