henlo! I saw This Postโข from you, and was wanting to know if you could share said list? I got very curious about it!
That is kind of vague, isn't it?
The event's organizer scanned and uploaded the zine here, so anybody who wanted to could print it out and distribute it.
But in case you don't feel like swiveling your head a bunch, my list (in no particular order) was:
Muriel's Wedding (1994, dir. P.J. Hogan)
Castle Waiting Vols. 1 & 2 (2006 and 2010, by Linda Medley)
The Nameless City Trilogy (2016-2018, by Faith Erin Hicks)
Nation (2008, by Terry Pratchett)
Parable of the Sower (1993, by Octavia Butler)
This, of course, was just what I had room for, bounded by the definition mentioned above and the informal rule that I didn't want to include any children's media. As I said before, media aimed at or about children tends to fulfill this definition. But I tried to steer clear of it because there's not much subversive about writing children's media without romance. My aim was to highlight media where a conventional story would take the opportunity to shoehorn in a romance at some point, but these stories did not.
And in case anyone is curious, the story on the list that most explicitly rejects amatonormativity is Muriel's Wedding (although I doubt anyone involved in the movie would describe it that way), and my favourite story on the list is Castle Waiting.
