Somewhat belated for National Coming Out Day, but I have these thoughts percolating and now seemed a good time to work through them aloud.

( Making sense is for straight people )

So, this thing with the Lambda Literary Awards. (For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about, you're probably better off. If you want to know what I'm talking about, a lot of people have been weighing in all over the place.)

( Trying not to take sides, except actually I totally am )

So, I like genderbender fic. Both of the always-was variety and the spontaneous-change variety. I like it a lot. It's interesting to explore how gender informs our responses, and making characters switch gender is an interesting thought experiment, which makes it sound much more srs than it has to be. It's not an academic paper...but on the other ( Read more... )