Welcome to yet another installment of Trans Book Club! Up to now, we’ve been looking primarily at fiction, but today we’re venturing into memoir with what is not only my favorite trans memoir, but one of my favorite books in general. Venture below to read more!
Continue reading “Trans Book Club: Sorted, by Jackson Bird”Thought I’d mix things up a bit today and talk about a game I recently very much enjoyed playing, despite the fact that it got Backstreet Boys stuck in my head for days. What game is this, you ask (having apparently not read the title of this post)?
Continue reading “Game Review: Tell Me Why”Greetings, friends, and welcome to another installment of Trans Book Club! Today we’re going to be looking at the imaginative and affirming YA novel Euphoria Kids, by Alison Evans. I can honestly say that this was a book unlike any I’ve ever read, and while I do have a few small critiques, overall I really, deeply enjoyed it. Venture below for more!
Continue reading “Trans Book Club: Euphoria Kids”So, I woke up this morning to this pleasant message regarding my Twitter account: Yes, friends, it’s true. You are reading the words of a Twitter criminal. So now, naturally, I’m scanning through my tweets to see what could possibly have triggered this suspension. Was it my link to Jon Stewart’s rant about how deep dish pizza isn’t really pizza? Was it when I announced … Continue reading T.J. Baer: Twitter criminal at large
Why, hello there.
For all the die-hard fans out there yearning for news on my doings as of late, I offer you:
AN UPDATE
(Big text means it’s Very Important, you see.)
Continue reading “Updates and a haunted purse”What I should have been doing this afternoon: Working on my book.
What I did instead: Wrote a Nancy Drew parody story about Antiques Roadshow.
Eh, it happens.
Please enjoy. :P
Continue reading “Pansy Crewe and the Mystery at the Antiques Roadshow”All right. Gender identity. Let’s rap.
So, there seems to be a lot of confusion out there about sex, gender, gender identity, etc., so I figured I would offer a quick primer for anyone in need of clarification. I’ll start out by saying that there’s a certain fluidity to all of this, and one person’s experience does not encompass all people’s experiences, and a general rule of thumb is just to take people at their word when they say they are this or that.
So, full disclosure about me: I have been a Nancy Drew fan for a very, very long time. It was a big part of my formative years, and I’ve reread the books multiple times in my adult life and continue to enjoy them very much. So, naturally, when I heard that the network that brought us the insanity that is Riverdale was coming out with a dark Nancy Drew reboot, I was pretty sure it was going to be… Well. “Hot garbage” was the first term that came to mind, quite honestly.
Continue reading “The CW’s Nancy Drew: Queer Ladies and Considerate Ghosts”
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