If you are a trans woman interested in submitting to Missive, but arenât sure what to write, draw, photograph, or generally make art about, weâve written some prompts. This is a non-exhaustive, non-mandatory list. Feel free to combine several of the prompts, or feel free to ignore them entirely and do your own thing!
You could write about being a trans woman and how that interacts with:
Class. Alienation. Race. Dis/ability. Culture. Passing culture. Respectability culture. âThe queer communityâ. A/sexuality. Music by/for trans women. Appropriation of trans women. Appropriation by trans women. Appropriation of some trans women by other trans women. Nihilism and trans women. The unique relationship trans women have with the concept of the void. âTrans womanâ as verb, not noun. âTrans womanâ as noun, not verb. Whether 'trans woman' is a coherent identity term. Trans womanhood as a site / place. Trans women and critical theory. Trans women and veganism. Sex work. Trans women and/in community. The concept / execution of sex (as in âsex and genderâ). The concept / execution of sex (as in âfuckingâ). Trans women and religion/spirituality. Trans women and magic. Are you afraid of the dark in a particularly trans womanly way? Trans women and abuse. Trans women and violence. Your feelings about the asterisk in âtrans*â. COGIATI-based humor. Cis lesbian separatism and trans women. Trans dyke separatism. Trans women and feminism (the movement). Trans women and feminism (the ideology). Heterosexuality. The urban, the rural, the suburban, and trans women. Identifying as genderqueer before you identify as a trans woman: what's up with that? Heterosexuality and Marxism. Meditations on your experience as a TWOC. Meditations on / reactions to the term âTWOCâ. Trans history. The role of TWOC in trans history. The role of TWOC in trans present. Whiteness and trans womanhood. Racist white trans women. Racist âanti-racistâ white trans women. Transmisogynistic cis men. Transmisogynistic trans men. Transmisogynistic cis women. Transmisogynistic non-binary people. Transmisogynistic trans women. Anti-identitarian politics and trans womanhood. Womenâs spaces. Womynâs spaces. Queer and trans spaces. Trans women fighting TERFs in space (this journal accepts genre fiction!).Trans dykes in spacesuits trying to figure out how to hook up, given their alienated relationships to their own bodies, and also the fact that it is hard to hook up with someone when you are each wearing a spacesuit. Literally anything from this list from Imogen Binnie. Nationality and trans women.
Just some ideas!