the stars they told me not to love: for love stories never allowed Paperback – March 1, 2026

The Stars They Told Me Not to Love is a tender, soul-deep poetry collection about love between women, healing without shame, and the quiet holiness of being fully seen.Written from the space between longing and becoming, these poems trace a journey from silence to truth, from hiding to devotion, from fear to love lived openly and without apology.This collection reclaims queer love as sacred.Not something to be hidden.Not something to be justified.But something inherently worthy, radiant, and whole.These poems exist not only for the queer community,but for anyone willing to see love more clearly.For too long, queer love has lived in the shadows.This collection brings it into the light,not as something to defend,but as something undeniably beautiful.Within these pages, love is soft but unyielding.Healing is slow and honest.And holiness is found not in doctrine, but in presence, intimacy, and choosing one another again and again.This book is for the girls still waiting.For the women learning to love without fear.For the ones unlearning shame.And for anyone who was ever told their love was wrong.May these poems be a safe place to land.May they remind you that your love was never the sin.And that you were always meant to lovein the light, unashamed.love.unhidden. Read more