The second issue of the Practical Handbook was all about queer readings so I made this non-fiction comic about reading Holmes as trans! It’s actually more of an introduction to the subject, ideally I’d like to turn it into a proper article some day, but it felt good to reflect on it and be able to have this in a publication as a valid reading. Researching critical material was emotionally draining since the very few published essays on the topic are incredibly transphobic and basically worthless, but that made me want to have my say even more. Many thanks to my good friends Mo and Elinor for helping me with the wording so as to make it accessible but to the point, and as always Katie for supporting my little transgender bum.
Tag: transgender
I know this will be hard, because we’ve learned from such a young age that certain names are ‘boy names’ or ‘girl names’, but we should work towards stopping to associate names with gender.
When someone tells you: “Hey, I’m Steven, I’m a girl and use she/her pronouns!” then she is a girl and you’re gonna use she/her pronouns for her. “I like Steven, she is a pretty girl and my best friend.”
When someone tells you: “Hey, I’m Cathy, I’m a boy and use he/him pronouns!” then he is a boy and you’re gonna use he/him pronouns for him. “This is Cathy, he is my boyfriend.”
When someone tells you: “Hey, I’m Peter, I’m agender and use ey/em pronouns!” then ey is agender and you’re going to use ey/em pronouns for em. “Peter is my favourite person because ey is so nice.”
Some trans people want to keep their birth name. That doesn’t mean they are less trans, or that they are less worthy of respect.
shout out to my fave under-appreciated unbreakable transgender hero
The thing that gets me is he didn’t ASK for the impenetrable skin. Poseidon was just like “cool cool but you know what you need? skin of IRON. don’t worry bud it’s on the house”
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