#Kylie Ariel Bemis

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Maiden, Mother, and Crone

Fantastical Trans Femmes by Lilah Sturges, Alexa Fae McDaniel, Kylie Ariel Bemis, Ellen Mellor, Izzy Wasserstein, Audrey Vest, Gwen Benaway, Kai Cheng Thom

Publishing date: 30 Apr 2019 Disclaimer: I recieved this book from netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

Mother, Maiden, Crone is a, at the lack of a better word, fantastical antology, gocusing on the lives and experiences of Trans Femmes  -  a viewpoint too often overlooked in representation and actvism both. The book contains 11 different original short stories from various writers, with various writing experience. The latter detail might be noticable through parts of the books, as certain texts seem to struggle with the balance between world building and representation, but over all, I really did like the book, and will be putting it on the list of “future bookshelf fillers”. I’m especially excited to re-read LIlah Sturges' "Undoing Vampirism" and Crystal Fraiser's "Perisher". 

I have to admit that reading fell in second line after exam prep, and so I did not get to know the book as thouroughly as I might have wished, but all in all, it’s a decent 4/5 stars on my count.

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#Repost @radwomenbookclub (@get_repost) ・・・ This #WritersOfColorWednesday is all about the Trans Women Writers Collective. "The Trans Women Writers Collective is an organization founded by trans women to support trans women and amab nonbinary writers by publishing them, paying them for their writing, providing help with their individual fundraising efforts, and securing for them other opportunities and forms of material support. The Trans Women Writer's Collective exists, above all, to improve conditions for the most marginalized writers in our community: black trans women, Indigenous trans women, disabled trans women, incarcerated and detained and undocumented trans women." Their first publication, "Nameless Woman: An Anthology of Fiction by Trans Women of Color", which was published by co-editors Ellyn Peña and Jamie Berrout, features: Michelle Jones, "An untitled excerpt from her upcoming novella" Vita E, "Retrospect" Carla Aparicio, "Silk, Not Cashmere" Dane Figueroa Edidi, "The Witches Grey: A Prelude to the Anthem of Trees" Olive Machado, "A Lantern is Lit on the Grave of a Cleric" DM Rice, "Apocryphal" Kylie Ariel Bemis, "The Sixth World" Venus Selenite, "Metropocalypse" Lukas Serena Bhandar, "The Root of Echoes" Emmy Morgan, "An excerpt from the novel Ice Princess" Jasmine Kabale Moore, "The Girl and the Apple" Joss Barton, "Lord, be a Femme" Gillian Ybabez, "Lisa's Story: Zombie Apocalypse" Jamie Berrout, "Three Story Fragments" Catherine Kim, "Fidelity" manuel arturo abreu, "Collecting" Jeffrey Gill, "Untitled Story" and "On the Nature of Daylight" Libby White, "Back Home: Three Short Stories" Lulu Trujillo, "Space Hunters" Saki, "Untitled Story" For more about how they brought this project to life visit their kickstarter page: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1353499815/nameless-woman-fiction-by-trans-women-of-color/