Hey, once again it was great to meet you! I'm one of the main people who kept saying, "you should write it yourself." Which I still stand behind, but I can see why it might have sounded flippant or dismissive.
Part of where that's coming from is my sense that you were saying "too many people are writing X," and you wanted them to stop. Which automatically rankles me, because I want (within reason) the freedom to write what interests me.
I've written a *lot* of non-speculative fiction, and much of it has had trans characters. When I write speculative fiction, I still explore gender issues, but not so much as a reflection of the "real" world. I'd rather write about a race of dung beetles that are all female, or a space city where there are six sexes.
I write these sorts of "thought experiments" because I'm interested in seeing gender as a source of hierarchies generally. I'd like to use my fiction to interrogate all gender-based oppression, not just the oppression of trans people. And I find speculative fiction offers a really nifty toolkit for doing that.
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Date: 2007-05-30 06:34 pm (UTC)Part of where that's coming from is my sense that you were saying "too many people are writing X," and you wanted them to stop. Which automatically rankles me, because I want (within reason) the freedom to write what interests me.
I've written a *lot* of non-speculative fiction, and much of it has had trans characters. When I write speculative fiction, I still explore gender issues, but not so much as a reflection of the "real" world. I'd rather write about a race of dung beetles that are all female, or a space city where there are six sexes.
I write these sorts of "thought experiments" because I'm interested in seeing gender as a source of hierarchies generally. I'd like to use my fiction to interrogate all gender-based oppression, not just the oppression of trans people. And I find speculative fiction offers a really nifty toolkit for doing that.