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hello it’s been a long time since I published any fanfic so here’s the best review I’ve ever received
Twelve Black transfeminine novelists who you should read now – like right now.
And we're live! If you've enjoyed watching me read all these fantastic books by black transfemmes over the last few days, then definitely check up this write-up of all the black transfeminine novelists on my radar and their work ❤️
Reblog this post if you think that publishers should sign more Black transfeminine authors.
One of the arguments I see a lot against trans of color fiction is that it “won’t sell,” “doesn’t have an audience,” or that it “doesn’t have mass market appeal.” I see it coming from within the community as often as without. What I think is so, so important to emphasize is that trans people of color aren’t the only ones who’re negatively impacted by their exclusion from publishing. Lots of people want to read their work! I’m white, but it’s always felt wrong that I’ve had to work this damn hard to turn up, what, thirteen authors? I read as fast as the wind, I can go through thirteen authors in a week if I’m on a roll.
So there is power in the fact that this is our best performing article ever, there is power in the fact that this post has gotten almost 1000 notes in under 24 hours. It’s publishing power, it’s publishing parity. If we can show publishers that, no, even when there are only thirteen Black transfemme novelists in the whole industry, we can turn out THOUSANDS of people who want to read their work - that’s how the market changes!
So keep reblogging this post. Turn out. Make yourself loud in the comments. Let the industry know, we want this. We want these books. Give us more.
I did not just see an ad on Sunday afternoon football saying “Kamala works for they/them, not for you” while flashing images of incarcerated black trans women. I fucking hate it here.
It’s not surprising, it’s not novel, it just fills me with such dull rage and sadness.
I’m reading The Longest Summer by Alexandrine Ogundimu, a Nigerian-American trans woman, right now and it’s a relentlessly bleak and miserable read. All of the blaqueer characters are mired in hopeless poverty and making awful decisions in a rotting city in Indiana, and I was getting ready to be like, yeah it’s well written but it’s such a depressing novel and I don’t like it.
And then national television pulls this flagrant bullshit right to my goddamn face.
And it’s like, I get it now. It’s not about being nihilistic, it’s accurately capturing moments like this in their frequency and banality.
I’m seeing a wide range of reactions and emotions to this post. What nobody is disagreeing with, though, is the fact that the Republican Party is actively cultivating violent sentiments against TWOC on national television and that Donald Trump will enable those cruelest instincts should he be elected.
In the short term - this month, right now, not down the line - what can we do about it? We can vote.
Voter Registration deadlines are days away in most states!!!! THIS IS THE MOMENT TO ACT.
VOTE LIKE YOUR HEALTHCARE AND FREEDOM DEPENDS ON IT - BECAUSE IT DOES.
You can find Voter Registration information at vote.gov:
Find the information you need to make registration and voting easy. Official voter registration website of the United States government.
vote vote vote vote vote vote
VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/10/08/us/harris-trump-election#trump-republican-transgender-ads
Since the beginning of August, Republicans have poured more than $65 million into television ads in more than a dozen states on these topics in some of the country’s most competitive races, according to a New York Times analysis of advertising data compiled by AdImpact. The flood of ads in races for the House, Senate and White House inflame cultural divisions and cast Democrats as outside the mainstream. They are a sign that Republican strategists believe they have found a potent third leg for their messaging stool in 2024, along with the mainstays of inflation and immigration. [...] Mr. Trump’s most aired ad about Vice President Kamala Harris in recent weeks ends with the tagline: “Kamala is for they/them. President Trump is for you.”
Up and down the ballot, Democratic candidates have mostly tried to ignore the onslaught, preferring to pivot toward more favorable policy terrain, such as abortion, rather than to be dragged into public debates on transgender issues. Privately, though, Democratic strategists concede that the transgender attacks are taking a toll in some races. The most aired Trump ad in recent weeks was rated as one of his campaign’s more effective in September in some Democratic testing, according to results reviewed by The Times. Kelley Robinson, the president of the Human Rights Campaign, one of the country’s leading L.G.B.T.Q. advocacy groups, said Republican attempts to use transgender people as political tools had failed in key races in 2022 and 2023. She predicted they would fall flat again in 2024. “It shows that Republicans are desperate right now,” Ms. Robinson said. “Instead of articulating how they’re going to make the economy better or our schools safer, they’re focused on sowing fear and chaos.”
It's not just in your imagination. They are spending a shitload of money because they think it'll land with centrists. Now is the moment to be vocal and angry about this shit. Support the trans people in your community and check your voter registration for this November.
OMG so many new followers!!! Hi! This project is dedicated to finding and documenting underground transfeminine literature 🏳️⚧️❤️
Are you a transfemme author? Do you know a transfemme author? Tag them on this post and I’ll go follow them 👀
Already got a bunch of super cool responses!
Alana S. Portero.
She’s on my TBR!
I know you read Mae Leitz’s Fluids and in your review said it was A Lot but she also released Girl Flesh last year.
It was a good kind of ‘a lot!’ Just, yknow, good in extremely sparse doses. Like people who eat pufferfish for fun. Or like, using paint with arsenic in it 🖤
We’re escaping containment 😭 my shoelaces are ready
There’s something very cathartic about my Tumblr account finally stirring to life the moment that I stopped trying to do marketing and started just mass-following people who seemed interested in trans fiction.
The contrast between “I am only following published trans authors and industry professionals” on Bluesky and Twitter and “Hey lmao y’all liked my BDSM wlw Genshin fic last year, check out this cool new project about transfemme lit I’m doing now!!” goes WILD.
this is a wellknown phenomenon
SO TRUE
Thinking today about the disposability and commodification of creative labor, and how poorly it meshes with the actual process of making great art
Like that’s how you end up with AI, when people see the process of making art as separable from the people who make it. From a disposability perspective, it’s the next logical step to cut out the middleman.
Creative labor is meant to be preserved and celebrated by the SHARING of that art created with other humans. We have done it since we could conceptualize feelings.
The operative and most important part of this is the sharing. When art becomes a commodity, it is fully damaged in its becoming.
I get that people have to live and must make ends meet and sometimes that necessitates this becoming. I am not shaming. I plan to do the same with my voice and my talent for expression.
Art is not defined by its medium but by the human connection it generates and facilitates.
Art begins when I see the thing you made or did or said and am provoked to emotion. To feeling. To love or disgust or intrigue. Art begins at empathy. Sharing.
🗣️When art becomes a commodity, it is fully damaged in its becoming. 🗣️👏👏
No please do be a sociologist @rachaellawrites, excellent addition
Where did anti-trans discrimination in publishing begin? Our unlikely search takes us back to William Wilberforce, the Society for the Suppr
Part One of our new series called A Brief History of Transfeminine Literature is live right now! The article is "The Moral Origins of Obscenity, and you can read it here! ✨
Reblog this post if you identify as a "soliciting Night-walking Strumpet" <3
Have you ever wondered why it’s so hard to find books by trans women? So have we.
Our ALL-NEW blog about transfeminine literature takes on hard questions about the history and organizing mythologies about trans fiction. If you've ever wanted to learn more about trans women and the fiction they write, make sure to check out thetransfemininereview.com!
The project is super cool and you should check it out if you want to learn more about trans women writers!
Boycott hoyoverse, please.
I used to be a big genshin impact lore buff, i played, i read, i was on forums, i made fanart, and then i was deeply disrespected by the game itself (this post is about natlan)
I am brazilian and i follow a religion named candomblé. Long story short, its from yoruba people who were sent to brazil as slaves, then went through a big process of spreading out to not just black people, but light-skinned people of lower classes like my family. We believe in the creation by Olorum, the power of Axé, and the Orixás.
Natlan, as of now, has two characters named Iansan and Ororon. These names come from not just the yoruba predecessors of candomblé, but also the religion itself, the Orixá deities Iansã and Olorum.
My religion, my deities. My mother's deities. The statuettes in my house. Their names are recycled cheaply to be used trivially. Never have we of candomblé ever gotten mentioned by AAA games or films that give such attention to detail like Genshin does, and we are disrespected. Our Gods are used like rags for someone's profit to be thrown away, washed out. They do not convey our beauty, our grit, our wonder, they do not convey us but they profit from us.
People love to tell us that it is just a game, but think again: games are not entitled to disrespect us just because of their nature. We are entitled to complain, to scream, because this is cruelty. You brutalize our image, butcher our names, for what?
When I was younger, I used to look at games with religious imagery very curiously. It was always weird to see the faith of the people I know be used for aesthetic reasons or just because it looks cool. The same has now happened to me, but times worse. People will say anything to justify this mockery and throw excuses to keep playing the product of a corporation that won't ever understand what it means to be us.
Boycott, complain, scream, because I will do it too. I regret the time I invested in playing, in reading, in watching, in dedicating myself to something that would never do me justice. It is not expensive to change a character's name, not even talking about the model. I don't plan on re-entering the fandom while it still lies unaware of the gross source material's true colors. Candomblé is not mythology, it's faith. We are alive. We have existed for centuries and will continue to grow, despite the challenges we face.
this should have more attention
*THIS WAS SENT TO A FRIEND. NOT ME*
the friend who received this is too nice to say something about it but i have reached a point now where i have seen them receive so many messages like this that i just can't keep my mouth shut anymore
this is straight up evil behaviour. whatever lighthearted tone this anon thought they were sending this with, i don't care. it's gross in every sense.
i'm speaking directly to whoever sent this now and frankly, if you follow me, non, unfollow me right fucking now because i don't want this energy anywhere near my blog. it hurts enough that you've targeted my friends with it.
listen up because apparently it bears repeating for the millionth fucking time -
FANFICTION AUTHORS ARE HUMAN BEINGS. they have lives and jobs and school and things they struggle with. maybe they've even spoken publicly about their struggles in the hopes their readers would understand them a bit better because at the end of the day this is a community and they have every right to use this space however they fucking want to.
"don't start a fic you can't finish" - literally shut up. shut up! we are not paid to do this, i will start and not finish whatever the fuck i want.
and holy shit, anon. as if this message wasn't disgusting enough, please let me state plainly something you "desperately" need to hear: no robot can give you what a human writer can. and the fact that you even threatened to just go to AI at this point shows how little you care about storytellers and all they provide for you.
again, i don't care if every word of this message was sent in jest or meant to be read playfully. it's not fucking cute. this shit hurts writers and ya'll need to realize that.
if you take time out of your life to send messages like this, you're a bad person. period. this is not how fanfic works, it's not how the world works. if you can wait two-three years for a movie or a new season of your favourite tv show, you can wait a few months for a fanfic to update. or you can wait forever. we literally owe you nothing.
i'm done sugarcoating it, ya'll. disrespectfully, grow up. grow up! enough is enough.
anyway
Hey anon if you've got that big a bug up your ass about works taking too long to get finished here's a handy goddamn tool for you:
You're welcome you ungrateful fuck.
Part of fanfiction is going on the JOURNEY with the author. And yeah, sometimes that means ending up in a dead end. But the journey was still FUN, wasn't it?
I really do NOT get people who bitch and moan about unfinished works.
Also, if you're on the other website:
writing a good book can take years, sometimes decades. that doesn't change for transformative works.
A reminder to please take a chance on indie authors the same way you might indie films or indie video games. A lot of us work hard to create quality stories that are too subversive or unmarketable for a mainstream audience and if you're tired of the schlock that gets turned out by the big corps your next perfect read could be being peddled by a tiny nonentity on the corner of social media sending posts out on nothing but hope and a prayer. Don't write us off.
One massive, legitimate way to improve as a writer or artist or in any creative endeavor really, is to become absolutely obsessed with something and to allow yourself to be weird about it. Genuinely mean this btw.
sometimes we all need reminders
Praying for her
i say this with love: yall will make yourselves feel bad about fucking anything, i swear to god. you feel bad about feeling too much. you feel bad about feeling too little. you feel bad about what makes you feel good. you feel bad about not knowing what you like. you feel bad for not being able to survive easily in a world hostile to you. you feel bad for the tactics that you use to survive. you feel bad for how you identify. you feel bad for being unique. you feel bad for experiences that you share with millions of people. you suspect that every feeling, experience, desire, fear, and question in your brain is somehow evidence that you don't deserve to exist.
i can be so so reassuring about all of these things but ultimately you are the one that's gonna have to make a conscious choice to stop measuring yourself in these ways. there is no authority who gets to determine whether you have the right to exist or not. you already do. there is no body that votes on whether you get to feel, identify, or think as you do. you already do. your existence as it is is non-negotiable. stop trying to justify yourself. you're already here. the world is going to have to deal with it anyway.
#wise words#I think the worst thing we do to ourselves is over moralizing everything#no one writes a think piece about you and dictates what you can and cannot feel and do#no one experiences your life but you