Bodies and boundaries in graphic fiction: reading female and nonbinary charactersDianna Baldwinbaldwindl@longwood.eduDianna Baldwinbaldwindl@longwood.edu
Tag: Nonbinary The Roles We Play, a guest post by Z. R. Ellor December 9, 2022 byAmanda MacGregor The Red Tuck, a guest post by Harper Glenn Amanda MacGregor Music, Mythology, and Misanthropy: The inspiration behind My Name is Magic, a guest post by Xan van Rooyen Amanda MacGregor...
In this delightful debut collection of prize-winning stories, queer, gender-nonconforming, and trans characters struggle to find love and forgiveness, despite their sometimes comic, sometimes tragic mistakes. In one story, a young lesbian tries to have a baby with her lover using an unprofessional...
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it has extra power. This idea is extended in the way Jam shares or withholds information.Petis largely a novel where characters communicate with each other, where parents believe and support the children, and where friends talk to each other. This makes Jam’s occasional and usually temporary ...
Thus you can just absolutely feel the nasty, UK Grim atmosphere leaking through, a sort of tonal filter much like a Russian novel’s typical, almost hysterical bleakness. If the characters are largely trapped on an island castle at the whims of its master, so also is the setting one where...
There’s never enough fiction about mathematicians; Catherine Chung’s first book, Forgotten Country, cut my heart open; I want to read The Tenth Muse right now. Nicole Dennis-Benn, Patsy Patsy is centered on a woman who leaves Jamaica and her mother and daughter to live in America, and ...
Given that both female writers and readers identify with the male characters it is fair to say that much of this material can be considered crossdreamer fiction. The term "yaoi" (short for "Yama nashi, ochi nashi, imi nashi", meaning "No climax, no fall, no meaning", is sometimes ...
engenders a proliferation of duplications. Timelines overlap and locales collide in an intricate network of uncanny echoes exemplified by the ants that run along the rim of Elsa’s bath in both her London and Paris flats: “They had found a portal to all my worlds”. The non-binary teenager...
binary characters can potentially change the lives of real non-binary people for the better. We’re not demanding to be included in every single science fiction and fantasy story ever written from now on. But asking the science fiction and fantasy community to acknowledge our existence, to no ...