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ANNOUNCEMENT: Dan’s Hauntastic Haunts Investigates: Goodman Dairy , by Alex Silver

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Dan's Hauntastic Haunts Investigates: Goodman Dairy

QSFer Alex Silver has a new MM (gay/Trans FTM) paranormal romance out: “Dan’s Hauntastic Haunts Investigates: Goodman Dairy.” When ghosts reach across the veil, Daniel Collins is there to tell their stories. Dan is a vlogging ghost hunter. He has devoted his life to documenting paranormal activity. In his converted van, he travels around the country exploring haunted sites. He loves the thrill of filming restless spirits. Chad Brewer, skeptic, works for an insurance company. He doesn’t believe in ghosts, but watching Dan’s vlog is his guilty pleasure. The cute vlogger is accident prone. He has Chad’s work extension on … Read more

#OWNVOICES: Transgender, Gender Fluid, Non-Conforming & Non-Binary

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We’re starting a new thing on Saturdays on the QSF Facebook group – #ownvoices. Each week, we’ll feature a different group of writers who don’t get the attention they should. Today, we’re featuring trans, non-conforming, gender fluid and non-binary authors who write similar characters. #ownvoices If you’re an enby, gender fluid or non-conforming spec fic author, tell us about yourself, your experiences author, and the books you write (especially those with similar characters – with links, please). If you’re not, you can still participate – share your favorite enby, gender fluid or non-conforming spec fic author authors and their works … Read more

Marvel Seeks Trans Actor for Superhero Gig

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Marvel Studios is reportedly casting “transgender actresses only” for a new role in the franchise. The casting call for “Jessica” reportedly is looking for a trans woman of any ethnicity in her twenties or thirties. On Sunday (July 29), Pose actress Angelica Ross tweeted, “Ummmm Marvel? They keep asking if I’m joining the family. You want to tell ‘em? #MarvelStudios.” Ross has previously been open about wanting to join the Marvel franchise, saying in a Jezebel interview last year: “I’m trying to manifest me being in the Black Panther sequel.” Geeks Worldwide, who first reported the story, have speculated that the character could be … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT/GIVEAWAY: Gift of Shadows, by Amir Lane

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Gift of Shadows

QSFer Amir Lane has a new FF/queer urban fantasy suspense tale out, book one in the Barrier Witch series: Gift of Shadows. And get two books free! Why would anyone try to murder a phoenix?  A corpse with no eyes bursts into flames before Toronto’s Special Crimes Detective Fairuz Arshad can investigate. Her superiors are ordering her to close the case before it’s even been opened, and it isn’t the only one. She tracks down a siren and a faerie, both missing organs and brushed off by the police. Fairuz and her dryad partner, Rowan, suspect there’s more to this mystery than it appears. The … Read more

Marvel Trans Film Star – Spider-man is Inherently Trans

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Zach Barack - Twitter

Spider-Man: Far From Home actor Zach Barack has opened up about becoming the first openly trans actor to appear in a Marvel film. Barack told Variety that he is “kind of losing my mind a little bit,” about appearing in the superhero sequel. “I don’t know that it fully has [sunk in],” he said following the film’s US release on Wednesday (June 26). “I don’t quite have the capacity to explain how meaningful it is to me.” The 23-year-old’s role in Spider-Man: Far From Home is his first in a major film. He played a friend of Peter Parker’s who … Read more

TV: Marvel Gets a Trans Character

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Jessica Jones

The Marvel Cinematic Universe introduced its first ever transgender character in season 3 of Jessica Jones, released on Netflix on June 14. In a major step towards trans inclusion, show runners added the character of a transgender assistant at Jessica’s detective agency, played by the openly trans actress Aneesh Sheth. Sheth, who is originally from Pune in India but moved to America as a child, said it had been an “exciting” opportunity to play the character of Gillian in the final season of the show. “I am transgender and the character of Gillian is also trans. But there’s no mention … Read more

#OWNVOICES: Transgender Non-Conforming & Non-Binary

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We’re starting a new thing on Saturdays on the QSF Facebook group – #ownvoices. Each week, we’ll feature a different group of writers who don’t get the attention they should. Today, we’re featuring trans non-conforming, gender fluid and non-binary authors who write similar characters. #ownvoices If you’re an enby, gender fluid or non-conforming spec fic author, tell us about yourself, your experiences author, and the books you write (especially those with similar characters – with links, please). If you’re not, you can still participate – share your favorite enby, gender fluid or non-conforming spec fic author authors and their works … Read more

TV: Steven Universe Season Finale Praised for Trans Storyline

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Season Universe

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

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

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Dreamer - Supergirl

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