How to navigate some of the big terms surrounding depictions of marginalized individuals: Visibility, Representation, Appropriation, Fetishization, and Stigma.
Category: writing
Trans-Writing: Self-Acceptance & Struggle
How (not) to write a plot that follows a character's journey towards self-acceptance; or, more accurately, how to avoid the struggle narrative.
Trans-Writing: Identifying Terms vs. Fluidity
How to approach LGBTQIA+ identities in your characters; or, more specifically, how to balance between set identifying terms and the fluidity of queer theory.
Trans-Writing: Code-Switching #AuthorToolboxBlogHop
What is “code-switching” and how does it apply to transgender people? How can you go about using it as a tool for your characters?
Trans-Writing: How to Signal That Your Character is Trans #AuthorToolBoxBlogHop
How to go about telling your readers that your character is transgender, and how not to.
Trans-Writing: Coming Out Stories #AuthorToolboxBlogHop
How to make "Coming Out Stories" not all about cisgender people and give the narrative back over to your transgender characters.
Trans-Writing: A Balance between Dysphoria and Euphoria
An argument for the need of non-dysphoric trans characters, as well as how gender euphoria can help balance out the negative impact of the struggle narrative.
Trans-Writing: Transphobia, Harassment, and Trauma Porn
A look at the different kinds of transphobia, as well as how (and if) they should be written.
Trans-Writing: The Ethics of Headcanon
A list of seven different kinds of transgender headcanons, how they can go wrong, and how best to ethically choose characters to envision as transgender.
Trans-Writing: Pronouns and Gendered Language
An approach to pronouns & other gendered language, including the latent transphobic biases that appear with ill-considered language.
