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Tag: Trans
The Myth of Permanence, a guest post by Kellan McDaniel
Vampires face an interesting dilemma in immortality. Their bodies, generally, remain the same while their minds change and while the world changes. Context matters. What does it mean to be queer in 1960 vs. 2010 vs. 2025?
Co-Writing a Story of Trans Joy Across a Barbed Wire Fence, a guest post by Teghan Hammond and Mel Hammond
Writing Lucy was our way of coping with the years Teghan lost: both the years trapped in self-denial about her identity and the years she spent in prison. The book is a badge of honor for those tough years we survived, and it’s a love letter to each other.
Romance for Logistical Headaches, a guest post by Edward Underhill
We are here, and we are queer, and we can’t reduce our identities to the neat black-and-white that society would like us to. We can’t (and shouldn’t) reduce our stories, either.
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Being trans isn’t all “queer joy,” a guest post by Naomi Kanakia
Transitioning is a lot more complicated than facile narratives about "queer joy" or how #ItGetsBetter.
Book Bans, Anti-Queer-and-Trans-Legislation, and “Quieter” Queer Books: An Open Letter by Jen Ferguson
These attacks, these attempts from a system that does not value so many of us creates a world where the outcome of these actions negatively affects us all, regardless of race, ethnicity, whether you’re queer or trans or not, whether you’re currently disabled or whether you’re currently not.
Book Review: Always the Almost by Edward Underhill
I ended up burning through this super-readable book about love, identity, and trans joy and can't wait to see what else Underhill does.
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Book Review: Man o’ War by Cory McCarthy
McCarthy makes it clear that there is joy and love to be found in moving from the captivity of anger and pain to the liberation of being able to be exactly who you are.
Book Review: Lark & Kasim Start a Revolution by Kacen Callender
A heartfelt and thoughtful look at a fractured friendship and the transformative capability of love and compassion.
Book Review: Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White
This is the best book about a trans six-winged Seraph bioweapon surviving an apocalyptic hellscape that you'll read this summer!
Book Review: The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried by Shaun David Hutchinson
The phrase "best friends forever" takes on new meaning for Dino and his former BFF July, who is not-dead, in this really readable, engaging, strange, poignant, and funny journey through a relationship autopsy.
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