Wendy Palmer on Nostr: #EngenderedWriting 21 — Do you know a trans person? Would you write a story ...
#EngenderedWriting 21 — Do you know a trans person? Would you write a story featuring one?
I know and support someone on an exploratory journey…
I would, and have, for positive and non-angsty rep:
- SC in The Uses of Illicit Art, deliberately written as tougher than her male twin (trans women don’t have to perform femininity; it’s bad enough cis girls getting labelled tomboys for the crime of climbing trees and disliking dresses ask me how I know).
- MC of Domesticated Magic, cranky anxious Mateo, probably the closest character to me I’ve ever written.
- And Fair Haven, the book where I play with gender the most, has multiple trans characters, but you’d have to be paying attention to notice because I put it in there as casually as I’d put in hair colour.
I know and support someone on an exploratory journey…
I would, and have, for positive and non-angsty rep:
- SC in The Uses of Illicit Art, deliberately written as tougher than her male twin (trans women don’t have to perform femininity; it’s bad enough cis girls getting labelled tomboys for the crime of climbing trees and disliking dresses ask me how I know).
- MC of Domesticated Magic, cranky anxious Mateo, probably the closest character to me I’ve ever written.
- And Fair Haven, the book where I play with gender the most, has multiple trans characters, but you’d have to be paying attention to notice because I put it in there as casually as I’d put in hair colour.