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Here’s my redesign of my Anansi! I hope you like it!

Check out his original design and profile HERE

Question for my black trans sisters on here, I’m reading a book on Anansi (incredible book btw by prof Emily zobel Marshall and Ivana Akotowaa Ofori, PLEASE consider picking it up) and I was wondering if any of you have written, made art of, or know any stories about Anansi in a liberating/rebellious trans themed tale. Reading the history of both the new and old mythology, he’s always been a liberating and cunning figure, used in stories to reflect struggles of the times they were told in including famine, slavery, segregation and more.

Knowing that black trans women and transmisogynoir are some of the biggest and most relevant topics I read about these days, I’ve been thinking to myself this whole time reading this book that Anansi, the arachnid trickster god, keeper of all stories and genderfluid liberator of the black diaspora who lives and breathes in new and old stories told by each generation absolutely and without question belongs in a tale where, perhaps in her Aunt Nancy incarnation, outsmarts cops, the government, the system itself in an act of liberation to her trans sisters.

As someone who is as white as a sheet of A4 paper and hasn’t even finished reading the book she’s praising, I am so acutely aware of how it is universes away from my place to write such a thing. This is a figure whose entire existence belongs to the black diaspora and even if I’m actively interested in dismantling it, I’m still a beneficiary of the very system he time and time again is antagonistic of. Thats why I’m hoping someone, anyone else could write this proposed story, because I go weak in the knees for cultural figures like this that inspire generational hope and would literally kill to know and be able to tell others a trans themed story of a gender fucky mythological figure who throws bricks at cops and gets away with it, who liberates and inspires hope in black trans women, who tricks bigots into attacking each other and making fools of themselves and get to see it added to the living, growing, beautifully modern canon of the black diaspora’s story telling tradition.

#my writing #black trans women #transmisogynoir #anansi #kwaku anansi #ananse #aunt nancy #trans #trans women #black diaspora #transgender #anansi the spider

“I can read all the books in Aunt Nancy’s bookcase except the row on the top shelf. I wonder why I can’t read them. Aunt Nancy said they were French novels but I just peeped into one and it was English. I wonder if Aunt Nancy tells lies."

Emily of New Moon by L. M. Montgomery

(Montgomery hiding some adult jokes in her book!!!!).

#lm montgomery #emily of new moon #FRENCH NOVELS #AUNT NANCY #Aunt Nancy being into smut books is my new headcanon

Ok but Nancy in your NYE snippet is totally Maggie with the girl & boy beds, I just know that Eddie is filled with dread whenever those two are together lol.

Oh, yes! They always team up against him whenever she comes to visit and it drives poor Eddie crazy. 🤣🤣🤣 Olivia loves quiet and kind Uncle Jonathan, he always lets her try out his fancy camera. And Maggie thinks badass Aunt Nancy is the coolest.

“Hey, Mags, we’re not hoarding up Aunt Nancy in here, right?” he asks, knocking on the door a few times, pushing it open to find them both sitting crosslegged on the floor of the girls’ bedroom, Nancy painting Maggie’s nails pink. Her tight brown curls are pinned up with hundreds of plastic butterfly clips.

Nancy gives him a look over her shoulder, her face colorfully painted with five dollar Barbie eyeshadow and bubblegum lipstick. “We’re having a girl party.” she informs him haughtily. “No boys allowed.”

“Yeah, Daddy,” Maggie chimes. “No boys allowed!”