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🏳️⚧️ TRANSGENDER DAY OF REMEMBRANCE 🏳️⚧️
QOTD: What’s your favourite book with a trans MC or by a trans author?
Transgender Day of Remembrance marks the end of Trans Awareness Week so today I’ve got another rec list. We remember trans lives by celebrating trans lives and sharing trans stories
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I just want to scream into the void for a second over something I saw in a post floating around here.
And in a reblog of that post I put this commentary:
Turns out I've got a little more to say about this, I thought I'd just make a new post.
I genuinely don't understand how people in on breath can say "hey, don't invalidate Loki being bisexual because he didn't end up in a specific relationship," and they say he wasn't gender fluid because ...why exactly? What were you looking for? Him to wear a skirt? What makes someone gender fluid? What does gender fluid look like? Let's ask Google:
So, how is exactly is Loki not gender fluid? Like I said, maybe some of what makes the other Lokis not Loki is that they aren't gender fluid? Maybe some hadn't come to terms with their gender identity. Maybe it was unique to this Loki varient. Maybe the other female Loki varients managed to be smarter than the male Loki varients and just hid better?
Just because there was one bit where a Loki was an asshole about it, doesn't mean we saw the full spectrum of what Lokis were out there and what they thought.
I know, it sounds like I'm making excuses, but also, I feel like people are still doing the same thing with the one Loki it is canon that he is gender fluid and with what people are calling queerbaiting when it comes to his bisexuality.
Loki is gender fluid. Ignore the other Lokis. They are all different people. Maybe they are all bisexual, maybe they aren't. Maybe they are all gender fluid, maybe they aren't. They don't matter right now. What we are looking at is Loki. How is he not gender fluid? What exactly do you think is missing in his characterization that would have made him gender fluid?
Disney is a piece of shit, sure, but the fact that you need him to look and act a certain way in order for a canon gender fluid character to be seen as gender fluid in your eyes because he doesn't match your expectations is a problem too. Not all gender fluid people can be spotted as gender fluid on every given day of their life.
It didn't have time to be more within the narrative. They admitted they didn't have time to do as much with Loki as they wanted to. But for ducks sake, people can wear what they want to wear, not "look" gender fluid, and still be gender fluid. Haven't we learned this lesson before with enbys? Haven't we learned this lesson with gay men and lesbians? There will always be someone who doesn't match the image in your heard of what a type of queer can look like.
And if you think Disney is going to go for things being overt vs. something that they think is easier for the general population to swallow - such as a gender fluid person preferring pants and a button up to a skirt and a crop top and eyeliner or whatever - then you clearly don't recognize how difficult the fight must have been for the show's director to get Loki's bisexuality confirmed in the first place. Look at of Disney's other issues with representation. This was very different, and far more in a lot of ways than what they usually do.
Now, do I think we should roll over and accept this as peak of what they can do for queer rep? Absolutely not. But to see people continuously write off something in the show as not being enough when it can in fact be representing at least someone somewhere, is just as much ignoring a part of a queer population as the other examples talked about in that post linked at the beginning.
Matt Mercer is genuinely sweet and making an effort out there, and I love it.
I hope when The Runaways introduces Xavin they hire an actual gender fluid actor instead of hiring two cis actors.
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✨ BOOK REVIEW ✨
Orlando: A Graphic Novel Adaption by Susanne Kuhlendahl
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Thanks so much to New South Books for sending me a copy of this one. All thoughts are my own.
I’ll admit I found this confusing at times. Not the long, impossible life or the passage of time but the way we seemed to jump from moment to moment without any real sense of narrative. I haven’t read Virginia Woolf’s novel, so perhaps this is faithful and I’ll find that confusing when I get to it, too.
I also didn’t find the artwork much to my taste which is a shame because the cover art is GORGEOUS.
But I did find myself falling in love with Orlando and the life they led, the things they saw and experienced, the people they loved. I think if it hadn’t felt so choppy, I would have really enjoyed this.
🏳️🌈 BOOK REVIEW 🏳️🌈
A Lady for All Seasons by TJ Alexander
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Another beautiful historical romance from TJ Alexander. I absolutely adored this story.
Verbena is so smart and headstrong and I loved her so much. She was always ten steps ahead, planning everything, sometimes to her own detriment.
Willa was such a beautifully complex character. I loved seeing them both as William and Flora, the way they navigated the world as both a man and a woman, the way they navigated their own feelings. I loved the complexities of their gender fluidity and the peace they found at being able to exist in between as Willa, as well.
The romance here was beautiful, even moreso because it was painful at times, too. I really loved these two together and the ways they came to understand each other.
I also adored Miles SO much. What an incredibly lovely side character, there for them every step of the way, providing a soft place to land whenever he could.
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Weaving Us Together by Lay Maloney
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QOTD: What was your last read for March?
This was mine!
Trans Rights Readathon book 9
Prompt: 2Spirit, Indigiqueer and Indigenous Gender Expansive Rep
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✨ BOOK REVIEW ✨
The Honeys by Ryan La Sala
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QOTD: Do you have any plans this weekend?
It’s Love Your Bookshop Day tomorrow and sml and I are driving down to Albury in an attempt to snag a little Penguin figure 😂 my hopes for this venture are so low, but day trips are always fun.
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