On writing genderqueer
So much of language is gendered. And, I’m not just talking about pronouns (he, she, they, per, fae, etc.). English doesn’t have ‘grammatical gender’ like in the case of a slew of other named languages (in Spanish, depending on the adjective, you provide the gender marker of the person or thing being described: the red fox=el zorro rojo, as opposed to, the red foxtress=la zorra roja…okay so foxtress might be made up, but you get the point, hopefully.) But, so many of the words that we use in our everyday lives are layered with the false dichotomy of a gender…
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Published on November 5th, 2018 An adolescent from the 25th Century, working on a school project, discovers a secret kept from the family for over 13 generations (400 years)!
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I put together this little collage of the covers of the books that I’ve read so far in 2023, some of which I re-read this year. The Catwings series by Ursula K. Le Guin is a must for anyone who loves our little fur friends. Octavia E. Butler’s Lilith’s Brood series (Dawn, Adulthood Rites, and Imago) will blow your mind. If you like the idea of people living inside a (flying) living organism whose walls, tables, and other platforms you change change and move around with a chemical reaction from the touch of your hand, that is just one little…
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