By Sarah Gubbins
Jo uses illustration and writing as a coping mechanism to escape her everyday life, where she struggles with homophobia. She has an overprotective best friend named Mickey, who helps her through these problems. Jo has another friend named Emma, who has a shitty boyfriend that is threatened by Jo’s queerness and is blatantly homophobic. Jo uses her English class and puts herself in the position of Carson McCullers, whom she affiliates herself with, to get through her rough feelings. Put off by Carson’s suicide, it encourages her not to take the same route.
| Playwright: | Sarah Gubbins |
| Publication Year: | 2012 |
| Publisher: | Dramatic Publishing |
| Genre: | |
| Length: | Full Length |
| Cast Size: | 5 |
| Specific BIPOC Characters: | Yes |
| Identity Structures: | Lesbian, Gay |
| Plot Tropes: | Physical Violence, Bullying, Homophobia, Gay Best Friend, Internalized Homophobia, Spray Painted Hate Speech |
| Red Flags: | Language, Slurs, Physical Violence, Bullying, Homophobia |
