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Transgender

FOR WRITERS: Future Gender

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FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer J. Scott Coatsworth: Over the last few decades, our societal understanding of gender has evolved beyond the binary to encompass transgender, non-binary, gender-queer and gender-fluid folks. In your sci fi works, how have you dealt with the understanding and expression of gender in the future? Writers: This is a writer chat – you are welcome to share your own book/link, as long as it fits the chat, but please do so as part of a discussion about the topic. Join the chat

FOR READERS: Things That Never Happened

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FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Marina Justyaoi: Queer historical fiction that plays fast and loose with reality – does it irritate you or make you wish it had been that way? (Particularly with LGBTQ+ relationships). What are your faves? Writers: This is a reader chat – you are welcome to join it, but please do not reference your own works directly. Thanks! Join the chat

TV: Steven Universe Season Finale Praised for Trans Storyline

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The Season 5 finale of Cartoon Network’s Steven Universe has been praised by fans for its incredible trans subtext. The show, whose creator Rebecca Sugar came out as non-binary in July, has won plaudits for exploring gender and showing a lesbian proposal—and wedding—last season. In its latest episode, “Change Your Mind,” the cartoon creates a wonderful trans story, featuring main character Steven struggling to convince his biological family, Blue, Yellow and White Diamond, that he is a boy. After winning over Blue and Yellow, who stop calling him by his mum’s name—Pink Diamond—and start calling him Steven, he takes on … Read more

FILM: New Spider-Man Movie Casts Two Trans Actors

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“Spider-Man: Far From Home” is the first Marvel film to cast two transgender actors, according to the Advocate.  Zach Barack will portray Peter Parker’s (Tom Holland) friend and Tyler Luke Cunningham will be seen as a featured extra. Cunningham appeared as Charlie in the second season of BBC Two’s sitcom “Boy Meets Girl.”  Speculation was already swirling during filming when the actors were spotted behind-the-scenes. In one photo Holland posted on Instagram, Barack can be seen second from the right. By Mariah Cooper, The Washington Blade

TV: “Supergirl” Teases Costume for Trans Superhero “Dreamer”

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The first glimpse of Supergirl‘s transgender superhero Dreamer has been revealed, and her costume is epic. The CW superhero show Supergirl has long teased the addition of trans superhero Dreamer, with Nicole Maines joining the show in late 2018 as the hero’s alter ego Nia Nal. Fans have waited months to get a look at the Dreamer in action, and it looks like they are about to finally get the chance. The CW revealed a first look at the character suited-and-booted and ready for a fight, in the costume she is set to wear for the first time in the show’s February 17 episode. By Nick Duffy, … Read more

INTERVIEW: Rajee Narinesingh, Prophecy

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Today we have something cool – an interview with a transgender actress in an upcoming fantasy film called “Prophecy”: About Narenesingh In 2011 the world was introduced to transgender activist Rajee Narinesingh, a trans woman who in 2005 wanted to alter her appearance from male-to-female as part of her gender transition. She sought out Oneal Ron “Duchess” Morris, an unbeknowst-to-her, fake doctor for cosmetic fillers. The fillers, of which Rajee received sixty, were not medical grade silicone, as she thought; however they were a concoction of: tire sealant, mineral oil, and glue, which after eight months left Rajee’s face, breasts, … Read more

Is Super Mario’s Luigi a trans woman?

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Fans of Super Mario Bros. have leapt on a new revelation from Nintendo to declare Luigi as a trans woman. In describing the Super Crown bonus item in the Nintendo Switch game New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe, the gaming giant told visitors to its website that “when Toadette finds one of these, she can transform into the super-powered Peachette. (Sorry Luigi—only Toadette can use this item!)” While this announcement killed off the hope many fans had that the Super Crown—which gives its wearer a woman’s body and stereotypically feminine clothing—could be used to make Bowser into “Bowsette,” Nintendo’s additional … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT/GIVEAWAY: Spells & Stardust, by J. Scott Coatsworth

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QSFer J. Scott Coatsworth has a new queer sci fi/fantasy anthology out: Spells & Stardust. Spells & Stardust is Scott’s first anthology – eight sci fi and fantasy shorts that run the gamut from regeneration to redemption. The Bear at the Bar: A gay fish out of water tale with a pinch of magic. Tight: What happens when your lover disappears in midair? Morgan: The year when everything changed. Re-Life: What if you were reborn in a strange new future? A New Year: They met every eleven years. And each time, Hank’s life changed. Repetition: What if you wanted to … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT/GIVEAWAY: Ten, by J. Coatsworth

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QSFer J. Scott Coatsworth has a new MM magical realism tale out: Ten. It’s ten days until Christmas. After losing his husband in an auto accident the year before, Chris has decided to go all out to find someone new before the big holiday – planning ten dates in ten days. Somehow, though, none of them is quite right. And as each new day and date passes, Chris starts to notice a strange pattern in the guys he’s dating. What do they all have in common? And is one of them Chris’s new Mister Right? Only time will tell. Get … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: Matryoschka, by Terry Gene

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QSFer Terry Gene has a new queer sci fi book out: Matryoschka. When a quantum energy experiment goes horribly wrong, it accidentally shatters the future allowing alternative pasts to co-exist. As Alexandria Jane Merk passes through the nexus of the effect, she splits into two identities-each with full histories of their own-merged into one body. One identity, Army veteran Alex James Monroe, remembers a life full of failure and loss. The second identity, freshman college coed Sarah Beth Merk, remembers a difficult childhood in a suburban upbringing. Both sense each other but neither believes the other really exists. To survive, … Read more