Yes! This was exactly my feel. It was cute, I enjoyed reading it, but WHERE was the romance?! I did wonder a bit if it was just a male author being overly cautious writing a lesbian relationship, but it was incredibly chaste and disappointing if you were looking for a Romance.
Really going to advise other trans women (and all trans folks, but she focuses primarily on us) to not seek out and read the E. Lily Yu substack. It's grotesque and hateful and nothing you haven't heard before. You don't need to read another bigot's brain-rotted screed comparing us to diseases.
Echoing Nico here, the newsletter is pure transphobic brain rot. It's not worth your time. There is no rational or scientific basis for transphobia. It's just bigotry. The field has numerous trans and nonbinary authors whose work would be a better use of your time. Trans siblings? I love you.
Have been back on survival mode a bit, but considering that substack post (of course it's on substack 🙄) I felt the need to come remind folks that trans authors writing SFF exist and are writing beautiful, fun, heartbreaking, funny, smart work.
there was a new study published *today* in Nature showing that state-level anti-trans laws increase suicide among trans kids up to 72%. when we say that the New York Times (and other rags of equal repute) is killing us, that's because *IT IS LITERALLY KILLING US*
Nature Human Behaviour - From 2018 to 2022, 48 anti-transgender laws were enacted in the USA across 19 states. This study shows that these anti-transgender laws increased past-year suicide attempts...
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The threat to deport undocumented immigrants is a threat to deport documented immigrants is a threat to deport the descendants of immigrants is a threat to deport anyone who they think looks like an immigrant is a threat to deport anyone who disagrees with them
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www.instagram.com/p/C_9XP3ztwo... Wish that IG links actually showed previews, but this is a brilliant essay about what is missing from the conversation about "diversity in publishing"
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