#genderqueer writer

[inclusivefuture]

Calling all trans, nonbinary, agender, and genderqueer writers/artists!

Inclusive Future Magazine is opening its submissions for Issue 1: Visions from a Gender Inclusive Future for a second round!!

We’re looking for submissions of prose and art from trans, nonbinary, agender and genderqueer artists and writers that respond to the question: What might gender look like fifty years from now?

This round, we're specifically looking for pieces that fit in with and respond to the work we already have, like a feature article to accompany Liasis’ cover illustration (above). Find out more by visiting the call for submissions page.

(links and more details to follow in reblog)

[ndtransaspeccultureis]

Autistic aroace genderqueer writer culture is making all your characters aroace nd/autistic and/or genderqueer/trans. Whether by accident or not, they all end up that way lol.

[morvantmortuary]

hey so it’s tdov and I went back and forth for a while about what to say, but I guess it’s this

I’m coming up on eight years of knowing I’m not cis and like, maybe three years of finally accepting that about myself and figuring out what I am rather than what I’m not. it can be a long and difficult road sometimes, no matter how comfortable you are with other aspects of yourself, because cis people can make the process such a fucking pain whenever you try to move an inch beyond their shitty little binary that a lot of them cling to because they’re scared to death of how big the world actually is and can be

and I just wanted to say that as long as I’m writing, I’m writing for the other weirdos who are made to feel uncomfortable in their own skin with how they present or who they are by people who will never get it and could never even dream of getting something so beautiful and wonderful about the process of self-creation so maybe we can have a little bit of a breather or a place to go.

I know when I started writing I was trying to explain to myself how I wanted to be loved and what I thought that looked like. some of the people who have been kind enough to read my work have mentioned at times that my work has felt like a place they could feel comfortable experimenting with how they felt being referred to or treated in a different way, and the idea that someone else could feel happy sitting in the space I made for myself to try to understand how I feel, has been something I’ve treasured on really dark days

so that’s it, I guess. things are bleak right now in ways I try not to talk about on this blog, because this is just as much a space for me to try to escape as it is for whoever might hang around to read. but I promise I’m going to keep writing for everyone else who feels like they need to place to get away, and my necromancers and I will always love the people who spend time here with us exactly as they are, no matter how the world demands you feel about your body. it’s yours, and as long as it makes you happy, it’s perfect 🖤🖤🖤

to my gender variant family: we have always been here, and they can never take that away from us, or our joy. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

[starberrywander]

I'm feeling creative right now. Would it be a good idea to write a story meant to check all the appealing boxes that the Harry Potter series had but without all the prejudices and connections to JKR? Like, would anyone even care about a HP vibes but not actually HP story with potential political themes?

I miss the house system and the magical school and the hidden world/secret society concept and I want a way to experience that vibe again without supporting the hate. I think this could be a fun way. But like, idk if the fact that it would be inspired by HP (and by my gripes with HP) would make it a problem.

Pro-trans + anti-imperialist spiritual successor to Harry Potter, written by a genderqueer person? Thoughts?

[nillinlore]

Sex and Body Positive Trans and Nonbinary Non-Fiction Books

Buy books from trans, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming authors! Here's a list of some non-fiction that I've really enjoyed. This is NOT extensive, it is just scratching the surface of what's out there.

Be sure to follow me for updates on my own books and a regular dose of non-binary gender euphoria! [18+ Only, I'm a sex blogger and pleasure informed queer sexuality writer.] NOTE: All links are to Amazon CA. Most of these are available at other retailers though, so, if it looks interesting please be sure to look it up at your preferred place to buy books!

Ashley, Florence. Gender/Fucking: The Pleasures and Politics of Living in a Gendered Body. CLASH Books, 2024.

Coyote, Ivan. Rebent Sinner. Arsenal Pulp Press, 2022.

Dale, Laura Kate, Ed. Gender Euphoria: Stories of Joy from Trans, Non-Binary and Intersex Writers. Unbound, 2022.

Grimm, Bruce Owens, Miguel M. Morales and Tiff Joshua TJ Ferentini, editors. Fat & Queer: An Anthology of Queer and Trans Bodies and Lives. Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2021.

Kobabe, Maia. Gender Queer: A Memoir. Oni Press, 2019.

Lore, Nillin. How Do I Sexy? A Guide for Trans and Nonbinary Queers. Thornapple Press, 2024.

Lorenz, Theo. The Trans Self-Care Workbook: A Coloring Book and Journal for Trans and Non-Binary People. Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2020.

Mx. Sly. Transland: Consent, Kink, and Pleasure. Arsenal Pulp Press, 2023.

Oaks-Monger, Tash. All the Things They Said We Couldn't Have: Stories of Trans Joy. Jessica Kinglsey Publishers, 2023.

Raines, Jamie. The T in LGBT: Everything You Need to Know About Being Trans. Vermilion, 2024.

Silver, Orlando. I Write the Body: Queer & Trans Kink, Desire, and Defiance. Kith Books & silvertongue PUBLISHING, 2023.

Sparks, Kelvin. Trans Sex: A Guide for Adults. Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2022.

Tobia, Jacob. Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2019.

Vaid-Menon, Alok. Beyond the Gender Binary. Pocket CHANGE Collective, 2020.

Violet, Mia. Yes, You Are Trans Enough: My Transition from Self-Loathing to Self-Love. Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2019.

[longlostlesbian]

no matter what anyone says. im still trans. i could stay in the closet forever and i’d still be trans. you could misgender me on my headstone and i’d still be trans.

even if the world “eradicates” trans people, i’d still be trans. if there wasn’t a word for transgender i would still be trans. if transgender people were erased from history we would still be trans, because we existed and we were trans.

i am and will always be transgender. no matter what people say about us. we have always been here and we still always stay here, even if you dont like it.

[whoevenknowswhatimwriting]

howdy

hello folks! i'm arden, he/him! i have a tendency to get incredibly invested in funny little characters from my brain, and write stories about them. i am totally on board with tag games and the like!

i mainly write character-based stories, with the setting being a bit of a backdrop unless it comes into play, with themes of selfhood, choice, queer identity, and healing. the main genre i write is fantasy, though sometimes i'll throw a little bit of sci-fi in there to spice it up.

my current projects are:

the words that cut (probably not the final name)

-genderfluid protagonist (single pov)

-explores the whole "names have power" thing with the fae, from a perspective focusing on the abuse that can result from that

-has made me think "am i a sadist or am i just processing trauma

the stars still burn

-there are three main characters (povs change)

-main concept was "what if warlocks in space and also found family"

-tonal whiplash my beloved

trigger warning guide here

twtc chapters:

chapter one

chapter two

chapter three

[tirzahstears]

chopping onions and garlic in the kitchen while i consider telling my father i'm transgender . soleil louise , jan 21 2023

[atomicraft]

[cw mentions of transphobia + violence]

wrote a poem for tdov 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

[yourdailyqueer]

Shelley Parker-Chan

Gender: Genderqueer (she/they)

Sexuality: Queer

DOB: N/A

Ethnicity: Malaysian Chinese, white

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Writer, diplomat, activist

[inclusivefuture]

What would the world look like if queer people could be themselves from day one?

The other day, I came across a set of tweets by Australian writer and LGBT+ activist Alexander Leon which really struck a chord in me.

In the past few years, I've been doing a lot of figuring out what's really me and what parts of my identity are creations, parts of a persona I built - unknowingly - to protect myself. And like Alexander Leon, I've become grateful for this opportunity for self-discovery.

I started to wonder what a world would look like if queer kids didn't have to "sacrifice authenticity to minimise humiliation," if, in our adulthood, we weren't forced to parse out which parts of ourselves are constructed and which parts are authentic, if we didn't have to go through this process of "unlearning."

The tweets above were adapted from an essay that Leon wrote about this concept of having to unlearn your own identity. In it, he writes about how, from an early age, he felt that his whole life was a performance even before he knew why he was performing. And when he came out, he was unable to shake the persona he'd created in order to protect himself from the disapproval of teachers and ridicule of peers.

"In truth, I didn't know who my actual self was. And how could I? The barely out version of me was a collection of fragments, pieces of me which I'd left to atrophy rammed up against pieces I'd contorted into unsightly shapes to protect myself."

For me, it's not so much that I've been performing, pretending to be someone I'm not. Instead, I've been behaving in the only ways I thought I could. I didn't know there were other ways to be. Even after I realized I was queer, it took me years to realize that I didn't have to be attracted to men at all, and still more to realize I didn't have to be strictly one of two genders. I didn't know there were other options, other ways to be. Figuring out who I am has required unlearning of societal expectations and intense introspection.

"It's a task that involves enormous emotional and spiritual upheaval," Leon writes, "which many of us are forced to do alone, with scant resources, or little in the form of mentorship."

It makes me wonder: how would my life have been different if I had access to role models and mentors, if I knew from the beginning that it was possible to exist outside the gender binary? What would a world look like in which queer people weren't required to go through this "massive, existential and deeply difficult exercise" alone? Where would we be if we did have resources and mentors to guide us through this process? If we didn't have to go through this process of unlearning in the first place, if we could be our authentic selves from the beginning?

This world, a world in which queer folks can be themselves from day one, is what we want to imagine in Issue 1 of Inclusive Future Magazine: Visions from a Gender Inclusive Future. And, as Leon points out in the end of his essay, it's a world that we're in the process of building, "a reality we are all continuously creating" by being ourselves and deconstructing the gender binary.

[M]y struggle, as exhausting as it may be, is a gift through time to generations of queer people yet to come. My authenticity, our authenticity, allows us to create a reality in which young queer people will see an opportunity to thrive not as an actor forced to play a part, but simply as themselves, side-stepping the trauma of the closet and living their truth from day one.

It's for this reason that the other editors of Inclusive Future and I wanted to create this magazine. Envisioning a future that includes all of us, and considering what that would mean for all aspects of society, is an important step in creating the reality we wish to see.

Originally posted on our blog on April 9th, 2021. By Mantha Pratt (samwisegamgeeee).

If you want to be part of this project, we are currently accepting submissions from trans, nonbinary, agender, and genderqueer people! Submissions are open until October 6th. Visit our website for more info!

[sluggodandpoet]

I’ve been a bit hesitant to do this but gender update time! I’ve been thinking and I wanna try out he/they pronouns alongside the name Arthur. So yeah you all can call me that if you like! Thank you for all your patience as I figure everything out. I went from thinking I was bi to bi and nonbinary to bi demigirl to pan demigirl to lesbian demigirl to genderfluid lesbian to grayromantic graysexual transmasc and I’m still fucking terrified. But I’m also really proud of myself and grateful for all the support you’ve all given. Thank you sincerely.

[ink-flavored]

at best, they call us helpless poor lost little girls who can’t find their way in a cruel world and when we refuse their help they call us hysterical young women too lost in their own delusions to see how far they’ve strayed from the path and when we reject them they call us traitors we’ve lost our halos and become demonic men, agents of corruption angry beasts of fire and wrath that seek only to destroy their sanctity and yet— when we live, we are not respected they tape over our mouths and insist we’re mistaken when we die, we do not keep our names they’re taken from us, our last wishes thrown out with our dignity and buried in dresses and they shrug when we ask where our brothers are buried “what brothers?” they say. “those poor women will surely repent” “at the holy gates, admit to sacrilege” “they were never yours to claim” but if the body is such a sacred place we partake in the holy act of creation and your desecration of men made divine in our image is more a sin than any of us have ever been

                                       – lucifer

Poetry Taglist: @elegant-paper-collection​ @dove-actually @polyphonetic @the-ichor-of-ruination @qelizhus @liv-is

[florilege-studio]

The hint of a shape emerges. Kas closes their eyes, left hand on the lowest keyboard as their right pulls the switch. Upstairs, the crowd has fallen silent. Gilbert and Rae finally stop sniping at each other, and Kas feels more than hears Gilbert come up to stand behind them. “There,” they say. “Look.” They move to the next switch, and the shape in the pool, almost human now, falters. It turns liquid again, then gas, then solid, dripping light from its aethereal body. Kas presses a key, then another. The shape rises. The connection has been made. Another switch. A flicker. The quintessence collapses in a wave; occluding light briefly obscures the glass wall. It leaves streaks of luminescent liquid behind, snaking their way down to the pool as it starts to swirl once more. “Stop!” Gilbert shouts. “Turn it off!”

A teaser from my short story 'The Light Organ', which is going to be published in Aether Beyond the Binary, a queer anthology from @duckprintspress.

You can get it by backing the Kickstarter campaign for the anthology, where my short story is just one of 17 incredible contributions, all featuring characters outside of the gender binary and more. It's on right now and we need your help to reach the funding goal!

[northlight14]

Manifesting the day where I can go on ao3 and search “trans *character name*” and it not just be 99% smut

[vonnawithav]

Just officially finished GO s2…

So. Apparently Neil Gaiman was named ‘Gaiman’ and has made it his entire life’s purpose to devastate the average queer person (me. I’m devastated) .

Mission accomplished.