WisCon Panel Idea: Being Read by Transfolk

[bcholmes]

Here's an idea: four or five self-identified transfolk get together on a panel. They've all read the same half-dozen books with some rilly good gender content (they'll chat well beforehand, and agree on some titles). And they analyze the content for what it says and doesn't say about gender, binary gender, and/or transness. Obviously, one of the books on the list would be that year's Tiptree winner.

Would you be on such a thing? charliegrrrl? jiawen? Maybe we could get Aaron (doesn't he have a livejournal?) or nadyalec (whom I saw only once, I fear).

I'm actually serious about trying to plan for it, now. I think I'm starting to believe that the best panels at WisCon are composed of people who've talked enough to know what each other is going to say.

Comments

[bcholmes.livejournal.com]

Um. Is that a 'yes' or a 'no'?

[jiawen]

It's a conditional "yes". What books were you thinking of?

Come to think of it, it might be a good idea to choose just one book. madcapricorn strongly recommended Shadow Man to me; what do you think of that one? If a single book has enough food for thought, maybe we could do it that way?