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Are you like us and can't resist rewatching Mean Girls every time it pops up on Netflix?? To celebrate the cult classic, we've curated a list of must-read books that are SO fetch.

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Generosity in critique MATTERS. And furthermore, here’s where I get mad as hell: direct-effects audience theory has been discarded for like 40 years for a reason, but it HAUNTS twitter discourse like a hideous revenant.

What we saw here was a classic case of destructive/paranoid readings that (1) FORCIBLY OUTED A TRANS WRITER and (2) caused a lot of misery and stress across the board for everyone... but that stress has been processed unevenly.

The other huge flaw with “the story harmed me” or flat harm-critique is the lack of acknowledgement that, if we’re using that metric, then your insistence on the story harming you is EQUALLY harming to the other trans folk for whom the piece was a revelatory story, or productive.

evaluative. It’s hyper-vigilance! However, what it is *not* is healthy or productive— especially when turned relentlessly outward to hold others responsible for your bad feelings as opposed to processing them, or saying “ouch, not for me.”

who have different experiences of gender and the world might be deeply seen by the art that you think is morally bad and harmful personally. To some extent, we know why this is common: traumatic stress forces your focus to be survival oriented, internal, and

Also, relevant from other recent intra-community trans Discourse: the fact that something triggered or hurt you, personally, is real— but that doesn’t actually make it bad, or wrong, or Harmful (tm) because you *are not the center of the universe.* Other trans folk

Art does not exist to be evaluated on a scale of “harm” to “uplift,” and if we want to talk dog-whistles, that right there is a huge one: it’s deeply anti-intellectual, and it centers a form of toxic individualism that evacuates solidarity/difference in favor of moral purity.

tv is ruined. the longest a tv show can be rn is 4 seasons (of 8 episodes each one) and we have to wait a year or more between them. and that's only if we're lucky bc a show surviving more than 2 seasons without getting canceled is like winning the lottery

The [redacted] was NO BETTER THAN BEASTS fyi and the prince is indeed a hopelessly gay mess

Bored of your bookshelf? Check out our blog on some captivating trans, nonbinary, and genderqueer-authored books! Featuring a spooky Peter Pan retelling, an unexpected connection filled with mystery and magic, and much more! tinyurl.com/kidlit-titles

Acting The Part by Zabé/Z. R. Ellor
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Queer actor Lily Ashton has found fame playing lesbian warrior Morgantha on the hit TV show Galaxy Spark. Lily orchestrates an elaborate fake-dating scheme to generate press. But are they ready to share their real self?
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I am…

[ ] single

[ ] taken

✅ an incarnate fragment of the goddess of death wedded to the imprisoned goddess of the seas who I cannot remember in my frail mortal frame but who nevertheless walks my dreams

Snippets from the Pirate WIP:

Happy pub day to UNEXPECTING by Jen Bailey / j. leigh bailey 🏳️‍🌈📚! 🍂

Zabé/Z. R. Ellor calls it “a heartfelt coming-of-age story, full of tears, laughter, and every feeling in between.' Perfect for fans of Heartstopper & Juno, UNEXPECTING is the perfect fall read!

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No Better Than Beasts by Zabé/Z. R. Ellor
Street Date: 1/9/23
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A dark and captivating new take on the beloved Nutcracker story, is perfect standalone novel for fans of Russian folktales, cursed kingdoms, fraught romance, and fairy tale retellings with a bite.

It's truly wild to me that stuff like this keeps happening and yet I can't think of that many upcoming queer book adaptations that are filming / coming out soon.

So gorgeous! I love it when science-fantasy books get these lovely illustrated covers💙💙💙

anyway if SFFH is not the place to experiment with style, form, voice, tone, structure, and linearity, THEN WHERE IS IT

WHERE