Tag: queer
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Iron Widow by Ziran Jay Zhao Review
Iron Widow by Ziran Jay Zhao has been on my To-Read list for a long time, and I had avoided it for mostly subconscious reasons surrounding the marketing of novels as “Young Adult,” I think. There’s much to say about YA as a pseudo-genre (it’s not a genre, it’s a marketing strategy), but even I…
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Queer Headcanons-Star Trek: The Next Generation
As a writer of fan fiction my entire life, I am well versed in the term “headcanon.” For those that aren’t, it’s a way to refer to an idea housed in someone’s head that works with existing canon, but it’s not necessarily supported by direct confirmation. “Canon” of course refers to the actual agreed upon…
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Book Review-“So This is Ever After” by F.T. Lukens
I’ll give you one guess why I saw this cover on an end cap at the library and immediately checked it out. And yes, it’s absolutely exactly as queer as I was hoping for. So This is Ever After begins at the end of a traditional fantasy novel-the chosen one has defeated the Big Bad™…
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Strange New Worlds S1E7 “The Serene Squall”
The caveat to this post is this-I am newly come to the Star Trek world. While I recognize the major names and characters, I had only seen a handful of the films and a few episodes of the series’ over the years. I started with Discovery, and am currently watching Strange New Worlds. My Spock…
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Freedom, Beauty, Truth, and Love
Moulin Rouge! remains my favorite romance of all time.
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The Time Traveler’s Wife-What Is The Appeal?
Maybe it’s because I’m queer, and growing up queer fundamentally changes the way I approach and perceive love, but nothing in The Time Traveler’s Wife feels romantic. It could be that I didn’t give it enough of a chance. Should I continue watching? Should I try to read it? What are your thoughts?
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Modern Vampires Are Queer Culture
Touching on the forthcoming Interview with the Vampire series as well as the excellent What We Do in the Shadows, I show how very queer vampires inherently are.
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Star Trek Discovery’s Found Families
In a very real sense, we are all aliens on a strange planet. We spend most of our lives trying to reach out and communicate. If during our lifetime we could reach out and really communicate with just two people, we are indeed very fortunate
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Queerly Beloved
A rebranding of my blog page to continue the focus on the queer theory, rather than medieval vs modern.
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The First Trans Man I Ever Saw
Not revealed immediately, because you don’t just know, Ian finds later that Trevor is a transgender man. He is portrayed by actor Elliot Fletcher, also an openly transgender man. I promptly had a panic attack.
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