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YA Books About Transgender Characters
There haven’t been a lot of young adult books published about transgender characters. This list is not meant to be a “best of” list — it is simply a list of the titles that we are aware of, and we are sure there are more we aren’t aware of. This list is limited to titles published specifically for a young adult audience, which means titles published for adults that teens might still enjoy aren’t included.
- I am J by Cris Beam (Little, Brown)
- One in Every Crowd by Ivan E. Coyote (Arsenal Pulp)
- Beautiful Music for Ugly Children by Kirstin Cronn-Mills (Flux)
- Happy Families by Tanita S. Davis (Knopf)
- f2m: the boy within by Hazel Edwards and Ryan Kennedy (Ford Street Publishing, Australia)
- Being Emily by Rachel Gold (Bella Books)
- Jumpstart the World by Catherine Ryan Hyde (Knopf)
- Almost Perfect by Brian Katcher (Delacorte)
- Luna by Julie Anne Peters (Little, Brown)
- Parrotfish by Ellen Wittlinger (Simon & Schuster)
Do you have a favorite YA book about a transgender character? Please tell us why you loved it!
Do you guys think someone (without a learning disability) who doesn’t like to read or just doesn’t read is a person of low intellect? I don’t think so but I’m curious what other people think.
I generally reject most constructions of intelligence. Basically if someone is good at a certain set of arbitrary things, they’re called smart, but if they’re only good at other things, then they get called stupid. I happen to enjoy books, and I think they provide mental and imaginative engagement, but so does Youtube, films, conversations, walking around downtown and sometimes TV. So no, I don’t consider someone stupid if they don’t read.
Done doing these so here they all are in one place! Fully Dressed Redesigns of Superheroines.
Point of this: An exercise in character design, attempting to clothe the heroines nearly all the way and not making them painted-on, while still keeping the look of their original costumes in some way. Hopefully keeping them looking as iconic as the originally were. Just showing what can be done with a costume breaking outside the barrier of the norm.
NOT the point of this: some moral code I’m trying to push on you
Sorry if there was a character you wanted me to do that I didn’t get to!
Wow.
Superheroines who look ready for an actual fight… and there’s not a broken back or spandex thong in sight! :-O
Article with excellent commentary by The Mary Sue here.
I really enjoy the wonder woman one. It makes me think of Rosie the Riveter and wearing slacks as an act of rebellion during and immediately after WWII.
(via feminist-space)
Celebrating International Tabletop Gaming Day.
IS THIS A EUROPEAN VERSION OF TICKET TO RIDE OMG I NEED THIS.
It is, and it’s awesome.
Also I beat Sarah and my mom with a last second longest route. Great fun. Thanks to Wil Wheaton for the inspiration!
I have a French language version based on German rails, it’s called Les Adventures de Rail and I love it. There’s little plastic passengers that you can move around to collect points.
Hello, my name is Yvonne, I’m a college-aged cis-female who has a love for photography, and I have hirsutism. Basically, I grow thick hair where normally only males grow such hair, which includes my face. It’s made me feel insecure and “man-ish” for a lot of my life, so I took on this project. I did this to explore what the widely-accepted gender ideals are and how I might fit in them, mostly, so I can accept that I don’t.
Special thanks to my friends Katrinna and Akashia for helping me with this project.
If you’d like to see the other photos in better quality, check out the flickr set, and I’m always open to messages!
Yay fucking with gender ideals! She’s gorgeous.
(via faomosgirl)
Fernando Rageuro doing David Suzuki Hates This Poem at Van Slam
Pretty much my favourite poem by Fernando, also super offensive and potentially triggering to anyone who suffered sexual abuse as a child.
