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Podcast: Comics In Motion
Episode: Indie Comics Spotlight: Cheer Up: Love and Pompoms
Description: Cheer Up: Love and Pompoms by Crystal Frasier | Goodreads
Annie is a smart, antisocial lesbian starting her senior year of high school who’s under pressure to join the cheerleader squad to make friends and round out her college applications. Her former friend BeeBee is a people-pleaser—a trans girl who must keep her parents happy with her grades and social life to keep their support of her transition. Through the rigors of squad training and amped up social pressures (not to mention micro aggressions and other queer youth problems), the two girls rekindle a friendship they thou...