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geekygumiho · 1 year

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How Stargate SG-1 would react to your they/them pronouns

Jack O'Neill: he's a little confused but he's got the spirit LMAO. I can easily see him trying to refer to you in conversation with you in the room and being like "so thEy... *side eyes you for confirmation and nods when you approve* and Carter were able to figure it out" (just an example). I should preface this post by saying I don't think anyone in SG command is bigoted or transphobic/enbyphobic and the only people who mIGHT give you a hard time would be the characters no one likes (like Maybourne or senator whatshisface I'm v new to this show lol only 3 seasons in soo) so fuck them lmfao. I give Jack a 8/10 ally score (an ally but still learning lol). (Also if anyone wants to see how SG-1 would react to a pride festival or other identities, please lmk!!)

Sam Carter: she's so sweet ahhhh I love her so much!!! 🥹🥹 Would 14/10 be so happy to support you and might even hold your hands in hers when you come out to her. She wants you to know she absolutely supports you no matter what. She might accidentally slip up and use the wrong pronouns so pls be kind to her, she'll feel so bad and she'll punish herself for messing up (someone protect this sweet soul 🥺🥺) Sam would do ANYTHING to show you that you are valued and respected at the SGC and she absolutely will smack down with a bigot who misgenders you on purpose (hold her back, Colonel!!) I give Sam 10/10 ally score and she most definitely would go to your first pride with you if you were nervous!

Daniel Jackson: dude this would not be a new concept to him whatsoever lmfao. His knee-jerk reaction to you coming out is probably to start rambling (he thinks he sounds more sensical than he does lol) about genderqueer/nonbinary/cisn't figures in history and mythology, which is his way of saying "you're not alone !!" but it can be,, a lot lol. He goes out of his way to make sure you know it is normal and not "unnatural" to go by they/them too 🥺 He would make the adjustment super easily and rarely ever slips up. (I can also see him in the past researching a historical figure, realizing they were trans, and that's where he got the smoothness of switching from. (it probably happened more than once, let’s be real.)) He definitely would get into heated verbal arguments with bigots about how normal trans/nonbinary-ness is in his eyes (as he should) and Col. O'Neill would have to hold him back from it becoming a physical altercation LOL. Side note: now that you came out to him, expect random ! bouts ! of queer ! trivia !! because he probably doesn't get to talk about it that often and he's just like !! ahhh!! a queerio to geek out with!! Overall a 9.5/10 ally score, just docking 0.5 points for anthropology-splaining queer history to you LMAO. I can definitely see him and Sam becoming your gender euphoria team and helping you feel comfy too!

Teal'c: I honestly don't know what to say except he gets it. It is done. He makes the change with a snap. He might even tell you the story of a transgender Jaffa warrior too if there is one! I think he definitely would say something like “I see no problem with this set of pronouns. If Y/N Y/L/N identifies as such, there should be no reason to deny them respect for their identity." (Teal'c is so nice 🥹🥹) I think if anyone purposefully disrespected you or misgendered you, he would go 0 to 100 and be like "In my culture, it would be well within my rights to kill you where you stand” and then Jack would show up again and be like "okay calm down" LOL. I can see Teal'c teaching you how to appear more masc if you're transmasc as well, like workouts and mannerisms and such, too! Teal'c is an 11/10 ally for me, and I would love to see him surrounded by drag queens at pride LMFAO.

Janet Fraiser: oh look, another amazing ally! She would have no problem referring to you as they and would hardly ever slip up! She's a 99.9% kinda girly LOL (get it,, germ killers,, she's a doctor,, hahahah...). Honestly the only time I can see her slipping up is if,, this is very specific,, if she's saving your life and needs to open up your shirt for the defibrillator LMAO yknow?? Which I think we can all excuse if she's literally in crisis mode saving your life!! Her brain isn't focused on pronouns right now!! Also! I think if you wanted to transition, she would refer you to her doctor friends who know about medical transition, and she would even help you with your hormone doses while you're on the base 🥹🥹 Even with checkups after off-world missions, she'd make sure you're super comfortable and feeling respected 😌 Janet is so sweet and I love her so much, I give her a 12/10 not bc I love her so much!! BUT bc she goes above and beyond to make sure you are comfortable in her care and in your body!! I can totally see Janet getting decked out in rainbows to go to pride with you too, don't ask why, I just can lol.

General Hammond: he tries!! Just forgive him, he's old LOL. No but he'd really try really hard even though he's not used to it and even though he slips up occasionally, there will be times where he goes out of his way to give you a heads up about when it might not be safe to be out as a they/them bby with certain people, like if a debriefing meeting involves someone who is vEry bigoted, he'll just kind of take you aside and be like "Y/N, I know your preferred pronouns are they/them (he absolutely would say "preferred" but he knows it's not optional 😌), but I would recommend not being out to the board we're meeting with today; they might not treat you as kindly as the rest of SG Command" (bless him for looking out for you 🥺🥺). He also kind of reminds me of my grandma in the sense that she sees me for who I am, but occasionally uses the wrong pronouns, but she’s a killer at getting it right through texts LOL. I give him a 8.5/10 because he's a real one and has proven it time and time again, and the effort is what counts 🥺 He might even put a little pride flag on a stick in his office pencil cup during June to show his solidarity 🥹🥰

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ernmark · 1 year

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I love nondescript, ordinary, human characters being nonbinary. But I will always have a fondness for nonbinary characters who are shapeshifters, who are alien, who are monstrous.

I love Odo, puddle of goo whose very name is a big ol shrug emoji, who modeled his looks after the solid being he spent the most time with in his early years, who unwittingly inherited that man's gender expression and pronouns and simply didn't care enough to correct people on their assumptions.

I love Stevonnie and Dax, each one more than the sum of their parts, each one an inherent blend of feminine and masculine, whose expression of who they are in the moment is unapologetic and respected without question.

I love Double Trouble, shapeshifter for whom gender is a costume to put on and take off when they get into and out of character.

I love Janet, cheerfully feminine, self-described hottie, but emphatically Not A Girl.

And I love them even when their creators don't make them nonbinary intentionally, even when they're cis-- because on some level, they looked at the whole of that character and created someone for whom gender simply doesn't fit.

And I love them because that layer of fantasy makes it easier to understand for people who grew up conservative (like me), for baby enbies (like I was), and lets them wrap their minds around the idea without having to guard against that secret fear that The Other might be closer than you think. After all, it only makes sense that a shapeshifter would be indifferent to gender, right?

And that makes them start to be less scary, less strange, less Other. And eventually, more welcome-- in their world, in their life, maybe even in the mirror.

#nonbinary

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walks-the-ages · 11 months

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Okay guys I thought we'd gone over this when JKR (scum of the earth) first ~confirmed~ that Dumbledore was Gay on Twitter.

Why are we now suddenly accepting Word Of God Tweets as canon?

Especially for shows/characters that didn't have a single HINT about xyz queer identity in the actual show? Especially when half these modern shows these days are *explicitly* filled with other rep?

This obviously excludes things in older media where the creators were clearly fighting tooth and nail for inclusion because it's visible in the show in appearances/how characters behave etc even if it's never given verbal direct lines--

--looking at Steven Universe never actually saying the words Gay or Bisexual or Pansexual or anything-- while still being full of gay and bi representation including a literal gay wedding--

-- also looking at a certain reddit thread I found by accident for the EDAs with Eight and his boyfriend (whose name I can't think of or find on Google) in the Doctor Who novels of them being a ship and the author not being able to include the more...ehem. explicit content between them, but their relationship is still there strongly enough in the text you can grasp what's happening behind the scenes.

ALSO looking at the Eighth Doctor being canonically nonbinary without using the word, with multiple instances of them saying things along the lines of Janet from the Good Place's "not a man" --

I think we need to bring it back again--

"if it's not in the [media] it's not representation."

The author of the Animorphs saying "you can Headcanon whatever you want" does NOT make the Animorphs canon queer representation.

The creators of a show that has canon gay and bi rep tacking on comments on Twitter about how a side character is "ace" without ever actually showing that in the show like the other queer identifies were given? NOT representation.

Saying a character is trans/nonbinary/neopronouns representation purely because the main character is a robot that agrees with its assigned-at-construction "genderlessnsss" and uses it/its pronouns because it is a robot (and literally every single robot in the entire series also uses it/its, there are no robots who are trans and want to use different pronouns) is NOT proper nonbinary or trans representation. It's representation for it/its users, but just barely, considering it's told in first-person perspective, so the it/its pronouns are never used for the protagonist unless someone is speaking about the main character as though it's not right there in front of them. The fact that many readers come away assuming either she/her or he/him pronouns for the main character after the first book, under the impression the use of it/its pronouns for the main character by the other characters in the first book was just a sign of being seen as just an object is evident enough of the problem .

Especially if the series is allergic to the concept of asking people their pronouns and everyone ~magically~ knows everyone's correct pronouns based on their physical sex listed in their space Facebook. It is not trans or nonbinary or neopronoun representation. The one time someone genuinely uses neopronouns they're immediately rushed off screen after being confirmed to exist for brownie points.

It's 2023. Queer representation is everywhere that cares actually to include it.

Does a piece of media need to explicitly say the words "asexual" "nonbinary", "transgender", "neopronouns" etc to be represention? Not necessarily; are they actually showing the representation? Is it clearly visible with the media? Sure, go ahead! You don't need to say the word "transgender" out loud to establish a character is trans--

do they wear a trans pride pin?

Do they wear a binder?

Do they have top scars?

Do they wear a padded bra?

Do they have old photos that look different to their current self?

Do old friends not recognize them right away?

Do they take birth control pills or have patches?

How about a character that is nonbinary and uses they/them or other neopronouns?

Here's a shocking fact: if you want real representation for nonbinary and neopronouns, you DO in fact have to include conversations about pronouns in your media if it's not a written text where things are literally spelled out for the reader!

You do NOT need to have your non-binary or trans or neo-pronoun-using character experience any kind of transphobia to establish their pronouns. You can literally just have a conversation go like this.

"Hello, so nice to see you again! Have you met the project lead and computer expert, Ian, yet?"

"No, I haven't met him yet, but I've read some his work!"

"Some of their work, actually. Ian uses they/them pronouns."

"Oh, my mistake, thank you! I cannot wait to meet them!"

Another, extremely simple thing to do is. Is literally just have the character wear a pronoun pin. These are things that exist for a reason, Especially for neopronoun users .

You cannot magically guess someone's pronouns based on appearance, and if you *insist* that every character's pronouns CAN be magically known based on what they look like ..... Congrats. you're being transphobic.

If you want to actually include representation for any gender identities in your work you HAVE to do the most basic thing and actually be comfortable with the concept that characters, like real life people, should be comfortable introducing themselves with their pronouns, wearing pronoun pins, and correcting someone who is misgendering someone without it always being malicious or a big deal.

Having everyone magically know someone's pronouns are it/its because the character in question is a literal robot in a world where literally every single robot uses it/its pronouns is NOT the representation you think it is.

Anyways.

If your new favorite modern media doesn't have explicit queer representation in the confines of the show/text/etc and only tacks it on in a random comment on Twitter?

Congrats!

This media does not contain canonically queer rep.

Stop advertising it like it does.

#large text #walks talks #i am tired of this shit #queer #queer representation #word of god on twitter is not representation #asexuality #ititspronouns #transgender #nonbinary #capslock

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prettybi4ajedi · 9 months

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First Article I guess; and it's about Body Swaps in TV

I've developed a deep love for body swap episodes in TV, because it's so fucking fun to watch actors have to play each others characters after they've been established and imbued with the original actors quirks. I'm rewatching The Good Place and just got to the "Everyone Goes to the Void and Accidentally Becomes Janet" episode and watching D'Arcy Carden play everyone is one of the most delightful things ever. This one is probably my favorite. I also like when it happens in Glee, when Tina is Rachel. My least favorite is The Owl House, even though that's one of my favorite shows; it felt like a waste of a body swap episode. That's not to say you can't get the results I like in animation; Gravity Falls fucking SLAYS animated bodyswap in Carpet Diem. Not only do we get another tick in the 'Grenda is trans' headcannon/canon/I don't know what's been confirmed but I'm confident it was intended and I'll meet Disney in a Denny's parking lot to fight about it; but every time characters swap bodies, even if it's brief, there are consequences. Even if it's just a character saying 'ah, this body is different from my body and here's how I feel about it.' In The Owl House, the characters designs change maybe slightly by adding or removing things like eyelashes to denote perceived gender, the voices don't change at all, and the entire storyline focuses on switching back without any real reflections on the fact that they're all in bodies of completely different types of beings. I know we don't find out King's heritage til later, but there's enough foreshadowing that I'm confident the creators knew that he was what he was from day one, and that could have been a very interesting opportunity to lean into it a little bit. I feel like a body swap episode should thematically be a perspective swap episode, and considering how strong TOH is thematically, and how well they handle difficult and breakthrough topics, I have to admit I was a little disappointed with that episode. Maybe it would have been better if it was done in a later episode when we understood the characters better, so the contrast between experiences would have been stronger, but like- TOH is probably my favorite show. I, a blue haired, glasses wearing recently-out nonbinary person saw my first nonbinary person in media with Raine Whispers, in what has become my personal favorite episode of TV ever. (Eda's Requiem). I have King Clawthorne holding Francois tattooed on my right forearm, and he brings me joy every day. I'm not hating on it and I want to make that clear. I just don't like how they do their body swap episode. It seems like such a trope; I feel like I've seen it in almost every show I've watched. But I do love the trope. I think it provides interesting opportunities and chances for character growth. Also I just got to the line in The Good Place where Jason says "Thanks Tahani. It's nice to know I can talk about girls with my wife." Love that light poly rep. Not related to the rest of this article I guess but that's probably just what the vibe of this blog will be. Mostly cause I just don't know how to end things. -Alex

#the good place #the owl house #gravity falls #glee #body swap #writing

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bookgeekgrrl · 2 years

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My media this week (19-25 Jun 2022)

ᶦⁿ ᵗʰᵉ ᶦᵐᵐᵒʳᵗᵃˡ ʷᵒʳᵈˢ ᵒᶠ ᵈᵒᵒʳ 'ᵇᵃᵇʸᵍᶦʳˡ ʸᵒᵘ ᵃʳᵉ ˢᵒ ʰᵒᵗ ᵃⁿᵈ ʸᵒᵘʳ ᶦⁿˢᵗᶦⁿᶜᵗˢ ᵃʳᵉ ˢᵒ ᵇᵃᵈ'

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

😍 Fete For A King (Shivadhverse #1) (Sam Starbuck) - cannot express how much I love this entire universe!!!! This book started as a 'what if there was a hallmark movie where a guy-fieri-like celebrity chef fell for the crown-prince-soon-to-be-king?' - it's sweet and fucking hilarious and very low angst and all the characters are amazing

😍 Infinite Jes (Shivadhverse #2) (Sam Starbuck) - 2nd book in the same universe; a recently retired ex-king at loose ends decides to start a podcast and ends up acquiring more loved ones in the form of a nonbinary producer and their 15-yr-old apprentice/son/disaster magnet

😍 👂‍ The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes (The Queer Principles of Kit Webb #2) (Cat Sebastian, author; Joel Leslie, narrator) - fuck, I knew I was going to fucking love Marian Hayes and I wasn't disappointed; give me a prickly, angry romance heroine every day and someone who loves her because their jagged edges fit together

😍 Ain't No Grave (Can Keep My Body Down) (spitandvinegar) - reread, absolute five-star forever fave; always enamoured of the idea that a broken, junkie recovering-from-hydra former asset would find enough of bucky barnes left to adopt two queer homeless kids; all the characterizations in this are incredible

😊 👂‍ Death in the Clouds (Hercule Poirot #13) (Agatha Christie, author; Hugh Fraser, narrator)

😊 Sweet Berries (Cambric Creek #2) (C.M. Nascosta) - mothman monsterfucking romance, very enjoyable

😊 👂‍ Enter the Saint (Simon Templar 'The Saint' #3) (Leslie Charteris, author; John Telfer, narrator) - surprisingly fun action adventure story; what little I knew of The Saint was from the solo hero he would later develop into - I enjoyed this early stuff where he's the leader of a vigilante gang of Bright Young Things

🙂 Dear Mona Lisa… (Claire Davis & Al Stewart) - short novella about a middle-aged synesthete trying to find the right way to come out to his daughter before his impending wedding

💖💖 +311K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖

Me and the Lavender Moon (emchant3d) - MCU: shrunkyclunks, 10K - another fantastic part of this series about nonbinary kitchen witch bucky & cap!Steve - really love this entire series so much

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

Fire Island - just as amazing and wonderful on the rewatch; nothing but pure serotonin

Legends of Tomorrow - s6, e8-13

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

99% Invisible #496 - The Rights of Rice and Future of Nature

Twenty Thousand Hertz+ - Breathe

Shedunnit - Bonus: Ask Me Anything Part Two

Strong Songs Bonus Episodes - "Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)" by Kate Bush

Hit Parade - These Are the Good Times

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

Fire Island Movie Soundtrack playlist

Presenting Janet Jackson

Women Who Owned '99

Gotta Get Away!

Pride Anthems

Summer Ska Celebration

Lazy Summer

Presenting Reba McEntire

Up All Night with Nile Rodgers

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lacefuneral · 2 years

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character opinion bingo: jim jimenez & izzy hands (OFMD)

(in regards to this poast:)

[murray hewitt voice] jim!!!!! my best friend jim!!!

the moths are all over the board for this one.

okay so. i have complex feelings about jim. on one hand, i love them. easily the coolest character on the entire show. but feel like we needed even more screentime with them then we got. i mean, hell, they fucking teleport onto the ship with no explanation. an entire bit was cut out about them lying to oluwande about their favorite color, only for them to open up later and tell him the truth. that's important! that's an important part of character development just... deleted. removed. reshaped.

i love the relationship with oluwande but i feel like it needs to be more fleshed out because, again, stuff got cut. but even aside from this, i feel like they were sidelined to favor the the leads.

but my main complaint is... how jim was handled. because, okay. yes. there were nonbinary people in the writer's room, but this is still a show created by a cis man. and jim is outed against their will. twice! the first being the most egregious, with their naked body being seen by lucius without their consent (to be fair, neither of them consented to that). and it's... sososo icky yucky. not to mention, if you watch the audio description, jim is consistently misgendered as "a young woman" and with she/her pronouns. i feel like it would have been so easy to say "an androgynous person" or even just "a person" or fucking. "jim".

there's also the fact that the way jim's identity is tackled on the show is that people loudly proclaim that they're a woman over and over again, and then suddenly characters are using they/them for them, and this is never explained. especially because nana deadnames them repeatedly (even if she uses the right pronouns). so every time i have introduced the show to a cis person, i've had to sit them down and explain "i know the show will tell you that jim is a woman, but they are transgender. they are nonbinary."

i don't expect jim to walk up to the camera and say "i'm nonbinary and I use they/them" pronouns, but more care could have been put into how their story was told.

my proposal, in a rewrite, would be as simple as jim's beard falling off in front of lucius. maybe it gets caught on part of the ship. the same events still play out, but jim isn't forced to be seen in the nude. and if jim did something like janet from "the good place" - correcting when someone says woman to "not a woman" - i feel like that would solve so much even without a full blown coming out scene.

ok. so. izzy hands.

here's the thing about izzy hands.

he serves a very important narrative purpose as the personification of homophobia and toxic masculinity. he's excellent as a villain. the show would not be able to function without izzy hands in it.

i found myself being repelled by him while watching, particularly because i watched the show at a time where i'd just cast aside a metaphorical izzy. for a while, i was deeply ashamed of the fact that i was a GNC man, and i felt like not being attracted to women anymore somehow made me lesser? less queer? and when i was watching the show, i was coming through on the other side of that. and before that, a couple of years ago, i was struggling with a lot of internalized transphobia.

and having sloughed all of that off of me like dead skin, I felt like Izzy's purpose was obvious. homophobia, bad. toxic masculinity, bad. he's less a character in his own right and more of a vessel for the societal attitudes at this time - he has this in common with the batminton twins and calico jack. very little depth beyond "this is a bully, and his motivation for hurting people is because he wants to."

(con adds to his character's lore, which is lovely and i'm glad he's doing this - but in the show itself, that substance just isn't there. maybe we'll get something more substantial in season 2 that rounds him out beyond his obsession with ed.)

but in the way that cishet dudes will watch "Fight Club" and "American Psycho" and walk away idolizing Tyler Durden and Patrick Batemen respectively - entirely missing the point of the satire of these movies - I feel like a lot of white transmascs watched this show, saw Con O'Neill in leather, and their brains shut off. I've seen people say things about Izzy Hands that is so far removed from the character we see on screen it's genuinely baffling to me.

Some people do Izzy Hands right. Some people say "this guy needs a lot of work" "this guy needs to leave Ed alone" or even "Izzy Hands should remain an unrepentant and bitter asshole, and the crew should treat him as such - which is to say, distance themselves from him."

But so, so many babygirlify him. And as part of that process, they do this horrible thing to Ed. They dehumanize him. They villainize him, and not even for the right reasons. How dare he break Izzy's heart, by not wanting to fuck him they say. Hey guys? Ed cut off his toe. I know you like to meme about it but that's a real criticism you could use instead of "this brown man is heartless and doesn't deserve boundaries." I hope that this isn't a revelation to anybody: No one owes you anything, ever. And Ed certainly doesn't owe a homophobic man that verbally abuses him and cuts him down for being emotionally open anything at all.

TL;DR - Izzy Hands isn't my favorite, but he's important to the plot, but also the fans irritate me to hell. Not all of them. Hashtag not all Izzy Fans. Hashtag some of my best friends are Izzy Fans. Hashtag hashtag. Disclaimer this is my opinion. Etc. Etc.

#replies #ask game #squishyliger

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blackbird-brewster · 1 year

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Theories (created right now this second too is fine) as to why Luke and Penelope only had "one dinner" ?

I think they went on a date, they had a really fun time (which was surprising for both of them) and then at the end of the night there was that pause... That anticipation.... And finally, Luke asks to kiss her... And they do

Then I feel like it was exactly the same as the end of Mean Girls when Damien and Janet kiss and immediately go 'oh god, nope! Too weird!'

And Luke and Garcia would laugh about it and decide they're better off as friends (or frenemies if you ask Garcia). So now they're just bffs who flirt a lot and tease each other.

(I headcanon Luke as gay and trans. And Garcia as pan and nonbinary btw)

#criminal minds #penelope garcia #luke alvez #Snails 🐌#reply post #cm headcanon #cm commentary

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incorrect-hs-quotes · 4 years

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Kanaya: I Want To Make Sure I Have This Right

Kanaya: Roses Brother Is Not a Taiwanese Monk But Rather Someone Named Dave Strider A Failed DJ From Houston Texas

Dave: i wasnt a failed dj i was pre-successful

Kanaya: And You Two Are Married

Dave: hells yeah homie we love each other. he makes the bass drop… in my heart

Karkat: AND DAVE WAS A PERSON WHO WAS NEAR ME, AND ASKED ME TO MARRY HIM, AND THERE IS NOTHING IN THE NARRATIVE THAT SPECIFICALLY BARRED THAT FROM HAPPENING. SO I AGREED.

//submitted by @tumblunderduress

#source: the good place #KKSDFLASKVNDSNFKFNFKSDJGBKCJGFDS #I REMEMBER THIS EPISODE #ive seen some of the good place #god jason fucking mendoza is thoroughly iconic #KARKAT IS JANET #karkat said nonbinary rights #homestuck #incorrect homestuck quotes #submission #tumblunderduress #mod dave #kanaya maryam #dave strider #karkat vantas #davekat

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caerdroia · 4 years

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i just think that it would be super cool and sexy if LGBTQ folks could get good, positive, blatant representation is all. it’s cool and fun to analyze characters through an LGBTQ lens, but I’m just tired of projecting onto characters that have The Smallest, Most Convenient and Most Palatable aspects of LGBTQ people.

#i DO like the good place and i DO love janet but im starting to :/ when i see 'heavenly robot janet is nonbinary rights and rep! :-)'#talkin eggs #lgbtq

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urfavepegs · 5 years

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Janet (from the Good Place) pegs

#NONBINARY STRAP RIGHTS!!!!#!!!!!#!!!!#canon nonbinary character #almost canon strap #(i mean when she and jason are all trying to figure out how sex works do you THINK she didn't whip out a strap at one point? cowards.)#janet #tgp janet #tgp #the good place #nb janet #nonbinary janet #@the showrunners: give us the canon nb pegging we DESERVE!!!

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dontyabigboy · 3 years

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- obligatory pinned welcome message -

Topics covered on this blog include, but are not limited to:

Queer topics, media, and subtext

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Fandoms and Ships:

Supernatural - Destiel, Dean/Benny, Saileen, Samwena, and Deamhunter. (NOTP - Wincest, Dean/Jo, Sam/Lucifer). Bisexual Dean Winchester truther. (Supernatural posting is moreso reserved for my side blog @lost-in-purgaytory)

Heartstopper - Nick/Charlie, Tara/Darcy, Tao/Elle

Stranger Things - Steddie, Byler, Ronance, Jopper, Lumax, some Mileven.

Buffyverse - Spuffy, Twillow, Cangel, Xanya

Life With Derek - Dasey, Dallsey (Derek/Casey/Sally)

Boy Meets World - Cory/Shawn/Topanga, Jack/Eric/Rachel. Headcanon pretty much everyone is bi. Genderqueer Shawn.

Good Omens - Ineffable Husbands

Venom - Symbrock

Queer as Folk - Britin

Pixar's Luca - Luca/Alberto

The Good Place - Jason/Janet, Eleanor/Chidi, Eleanor/Tahani

Our Flag Means Death - Blackbonnet

Hannibal - Hannigram

MCU - Stucky, SamBucky, Lokius, WandaVision. (NOTP - Sylkie, Natasha/Anyone, Gamora/Peter, Steve/Sharon, Thor/Jane)

The Vampire Diaries - Delena, Bamon, Klaroline (NOTP - Stelena, Caroline/Tyler)

Atypical - Casey/Izzie

Teen Wolf - Sterek. Bisexual Stiles truther.

Community - Trobed (NOTP - Jeff/Britta)

Zootopia - Nick/Judy (non-explicit only)

Doctor Who - Ten/Rose

Lucifer - Lucifer/Chloe, Maze/Eve

Scooby Doo - Velma/Daphne

Bones - Booth/Brennan

Sex Education - Lily/Ola, Maeve/Isaac. (NOTP - Maeve/Otis)

Rick & Morty - Pansexual Rick truther.

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I feel like a lot of people will take issue with what I'm going to say but I feel it needs to be said. As much as I love Pose and love Pray Tell--that finale didn't feel right. A lot of this past season hasn't felt right. I realize that Pray Tell is an important character but I have always sort of taken issue with the fact that it feels like the show should have focused so much more on trans characters than anyone else. It bothered me when Billy Porter was nominated for an Emmy and said "At least we got our foot in the door." This is simply not true. Gay men have had their foot in the door of Hollywood for a long time. I do think they have been absolutely and heavily oppressed in the industry, especially black gay men, but they have had their foot in the door none the less. I would even go so far as to say they may even be in the room now. But trans women? Nonbinary people? Especially black and brown? Have yet to get the space they truly deserve. And I don't forgive Billy Porter for not seeing that. I do think he is an important member of the community and I recognize that as a 51 year old HIV positive gay man, he is old enough to have been possibly witness to a good portion of the AIDs crisis. He probably was a prominent member of the ballroom community and I respect him as a prominent member of the lgbtq+ community now. But the fact is that at the end of the day, Billy Porter is not trans and does not face the same struggles as a trans person. It feels as though the writers of Pose (with the exception of Janet who wrote some AMAZING episodes this season and did contribute to the finale) wrote to the gay cisgender audience as opposed to the trans audience and to a degree that bothers me. I was extremely upset by Pray Tell's death because it was tragic and the fact is that getting access to meds like that during the epidemic were almost IMPOSSIBLE and he was selfless. But I do wish there had been more space for more of the trans characters to have their moments as opposed to them just kind of wrapping up their storylines (though don't get me wrong I adored seeing everyone thriving, I will never get tired of that). To be honest, I wish we had gotten more episodes. Or even more seasons. It feels like it was always the plan to space the show out like this with the way they used time jumps in the first two seasons, but I digress. It also always bothered me that out of all of Ryan Murphy's shows (some of which have been EXTREMELY problematic), Pose got what felt like the least amount of press and the least amount of hype. Its very hard to find Pose inspired fan merch outside of the main fx website and even those are very plain. You can't even buy the first two seasons of Pose on physical media. They could have done so much more for this show. I really don't care about award shows honestly. There are lots of movies and shows that make millions of dollars without any critical praise. The fact is, you can tell that Ryan Murphy did not put as much effort into this show as he could have. I feel like I saw more ads for Ratchet than I ever did for Pose. And I'm honestly, genuinely concerned. Because Pose was a one of a kind show for an lgbtq+ audience that had almost never existed before now and I am very scared that there won't be another diverse and well-cast show for the community like it again for a long time.

Anyway. Those are my thoughts. I understand if you don't agree with them. Please know that I love this show so much and I loved Pray Tell and I love Billy Porter, despite everything. I wish for his success and happiness just as much as all the other cast members. And I still loved the finale, and ultimately where everyone ended up.

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Is that ROB IOANE? Wow, they do look a lot like QUINTESSA SWINDELL. I hear THEY are a NINETEEN year old SOPHOMORE who are studying POLITICS at Luxor University. Word is they are a REGULAR student who is AGAINST The Unhinged. You should watch out because they can be SANCTIMONIOUS and QUIXOTIC, but on the bright side they can also be HUMANITARIAN and SPONTANEOUS. Ultimately, you’ll get to see it all for yourself.

THE ESSENTIALS/TL;DR

Rob Ioane is a sophomore at Luxor Academy, studying Politics and Environmental Studies. Having decided to go by they/them pronouns at a fairly young age, Rob is a non-binary activist, determined to better the world as they reject conventional values and instead focus their life on sustainability and activism. Personality wise, they are passionate, and while they are an anti-nihilist, they still hold themselves - and everyone else - to an extremely black and white moral code. That does not stop them from being spontaneous though, and giving in to flights of impulsivity and exploration. Rob is unpredictable, governed only by their own moral code and intuition, so no one is ever quite sure what they’re going to get. Including themself.

CHARACTER INSPIRATIONS

greta thunberg - kiara carrera (obx) - paula (the white lotus) - marcus walker (scandal) - misty day (ahs: coven) - charlie dalton (dead poet’s society) - sam white (dear white people) - n’jobu (black panther) - malala yousafzai - britta perry (community) - janet (the good place) - kat edison (the bold type) - kat stratford (10 things i hate about you) - v (v for vendetta) - zoya lott (gossip girl) - beth (john tucker must die)

TV TROPES

the anti-nihilist - technical pacifist - black and white morality (a little bit of blue and orange morality) - screw the rules, i’m doing what’s right - erudite stoner - granola girl - black and nerdy - malcolm xerox - soapbox sadie - all issues are political issues - badass bureaucrat - ethical slut - long lost relative - gender-blender name - twofer token minority

LUXOR ACADEMY 2021-2022

MAJOR:

Politics

MINOR:

Environmental Studies

EXTRACURRICULARS:

National Honors Society

Student Council

Debate

School Paper (Writer, Interviewer)

GSA (President)

BASIC INFORMATION

FULL NAME: Robin Soraya Ioane

NICKNAME(S): Rob (they ONLY go by Rob, if you call them Robin, they will simply cease to acknowledge your existence)

DATE OF BIRTH: February 7th, 2002

AGE: 19

ZODIAC SIGN: Aquarius Sun, Sagittarius Moon, Capricorn Rising (also Capricorn Mercury, Aquarius Venus, Scorpio Mars, Cancer Jupiter in retrograde) (and Gemini Saturn, Aquarius Uranus, Aquarius Neptune and Sagittarius Pluto)

HOMETOWN: Portland and Newport, Oregon

CURRENT RESIDENCE: Luxor Academy

NATIONALITY: American

LANGUAGE(S): English

GENDER & PRONOUNS: Nonbinary, They/Them

SEXUAL ORIENTATION: Pansexual

RELIGION: None/Agnostic

POLITICAL AFFILIATION: Socialist

PHYSICAL INFORMATION

FACE CLAIM: Quintessa Swindell

HEIGHT: 5'8″

EYE COLOUR: Brown

HAIR COLOUR + STYLE: Dark brown & curly, sometimes worn in box braids

TATTOO(S): TBD

PIERCING(S: TBD

GLASSES: TBD

ALSO: i feel this is important to point out as well - Quintessa Swindell is non-binary and goes by they/he pronouns, so please keep that in mind even when referring to the fc and not just the character!!!

PERSONALITY

MBTI TYPE: ESTJ

MORAL ALIGNMENT: Lawful Good

POSITIVE TRAITS: humanitarian, idealistic, intelligent, unique, independent, compassionate, spontaneous, charismatic, ambitious, serious

NEGATIVE TRAITS: sanctimonious, unpredictable, detached, restless, nihilistic, stubborn, condescending, tactless, cold, quixotic

GOALS/DESIRES: just the small super manageable one of saving the planet and humankind

FEARS: TBD

HOBBIES: TBD

HABITS: TBD

SMOKES?: absolutely not (if we’re talking about cigarettes. weed….yes. like all the time)

DRINKS?: yes but not typically their first choice of substance

DRUGS?: a lot of weed, regularly microdoses with lsd (if doesn’t go on a full trip), and will willingly get quite experimental with drugs

Personality wise, Rob is extremely passionate. They often come off sanctimonious and condescending, but they consider it part of the cause of activism to educate people around them, even if those people are resistant. They are definitely nihilistic, but rather than giving into despair, they try to give themselves meaning and a purpose, which is obviously their activism for sustainability, environment, and human right’s. They ultimately believe in the strength and resilience of humankind, so they are an idealist at the end of the day. That being said, they will never hesitate to get into a debate with people just because they love debating (#aquarius), and will often play the contrarian, though they lack the self-control to not end up pissed off when getting into these arguments.

They do tend to view people and morals as fairly black and white. While it may not seem obvious to others, they certainly have a strict set of morals they follow. They believe in listening to in our own intuition more than believing in a higher power, and so they believe in crystals, in astrology, in tarot, and believe we are at our best when we are sharing our energy. Everything is about energy for them - it’s all about the vibes. When someone is giving Rob bad vibes, typically in a way that is disrespectful, whether that be implying someone doesn’t deserve equal rights, showing ignorance, or treating the planet like shit, they will not hesitate to lecture. They do not care about annoying people or coming off preachy - the purpose they have given themselves is to educate others, so they will always take the opportunity to go off on a sermon. When they have decided someone has the wrong morals, or had bad vibes, or dark energy, that’s pretty much it for them. They will hold a grudge, and they do not forgive-and-forget

Rob can also be quite spontaneous. While they are serious and ambitious, they also have a side of them that cannot be controlled or told what to do - other than by their own moral code. They love to go on adventures, they love to be outdoors, and they rarely like to be still. Both mentally and physically. They believe in exploration - in every sense of the word. They are outgoing, and spontaneous, and fun, and a little bit wild, within reason. If you’re someone they like, this side will not fail to come out, and whoever it is will inevitably end up getting pulled along in their impulsive schemes for fun.

FAMILY

MOTHER: Soraya Ioane (Yaya DeCosta)

read more here - tbd

BIOGRAPHY

Rob was born to a young single mother in Portland, Oregon. They lived in Portland for most of Rob’s childhood, including while Soraya was seriously dating another man, and even had his child, giving Rob a half-sister to grow up with, along with Dale. Rob and Dale, despite only being cousins, were extremely close, and so when they split up, Soraya moving the family back to her hometown of Newport, the two siblings leaned on each other for support, which became their norm through their teen years.

However, determined to make sure her children stayed well adjusted, Soraya also put them both in therapy - Rob had always been prone to outbursts, especially when they got frustrated, and such big changes could have a detrimental affect, which Soraya was trying to avoid. Rob was around fourteen when they realized, through the help of a year or two of therapy that they didn’t believe in the societal concept of gender, and they especially didn’t identify with either gender, recognizing that they were non-binary and deciding to go by they/them pronouns.

They did struggle with a lot of depression during this time, feeling like something was wrong with them, and with the help of their therapist, they were coaxed into finding something they were passionate about (this is also when their nihilism started to develop, tbh). This led them down the path of research about the planet being unlivable and everyone being doomed with the extinction of the human race. While they obviously didn’t help their depression, knowing that the planet was probably going to blow up anytime, it did eventually lead them into more research and sparked their interest in environmentalism. Their (somewhat nihilist) view point is that there’s no point in having other goals or dreams because without finding a remedy to climate change, it is all essentially pointless.

While they were exploring who they were, they also realized that they are pansexual, which goes without saying if you don’t believe in gender. However, they don’t believe in enforcing labels, so they personally do not label their sexuality, and just believe in loving who they love. This, of course, is quite a progressive view, so Rob did face bullying and bigotry growing up. Along with environmentalism and sustainability, facing these challenges as a human also helped spark their strong passion for human rights, and activism as a whole, which led them to develop a huge part of who they are today, as a young adult. Rob does believe the best in people, to the point of being overly idealistic. While they have seen the dark side of humans and is all too aware of what they are doing to the planet and society we are apart of, they also believe that people can be reformed. That they can learn and do better, and as such, Rob themself is always trying to do better. They are determined to dedicate their life to helping people improve themselves and leave a better place behind them.

FUN FACTS

they do still present feminine, and wear make-up/jewelry/dresses/etc, bc being masc/androgynous isn’t what being non-binary is about, but will def dress masc from time to time

things they consider “wrong”: using straws, using plastic, consuming anything made from palm oil, supporting amazon, private jets, fast fashion, burning candles, dairy, any sort of meat (you might get a pass if it’s free range or whatever)

yes, that means….they’re vegan, and yes, they do bring it up all the time

refuses to read books by cis hetero white men (as they should, go off)

they are definitely, like, an eccentric hippie, but if that’s something you vibe with, they’ll like you. it’s all about the vibes, really.

CONNECTION IDEAS

Ex-Partners

Activism buddies

Will eventually do a real wanted connection page

All that being said, connections are always vague jumping off points, and the best connections and plots come are dependent on character chemistry and interactions!

#luxintro #muse #this is so long and FOR WHAAATTTT #but omg #rob finally has a real intro 😌😌😌😌

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The Good Place! 💜

The first character I first fell in love with: michael, before i even started the show i remember seeing a clip of him sacrificing himself for eleanor near the end of series 2 and being HEARTBROKEN 😭 as soon as i started watching it definitely tahani and chidi

The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: jason :') he means the world to me, how he's the 'dumb childish and impulsive' character i relate to a lot but still comes up with some of the most important solutions, not just despite but because of the above, how he's fun loving and knows exactly how to help people a lot of the time and perceptive and wise in his own way and above all so incredibly KIND <3

The character everyone else loves that I don’t: not reallyy sure who everyone loves but probably eleanor? obviously she's supposed to be unlikeable to start with but she still bugs me through, however i also like how they didn't make her some perfect lovely person all the time and she is still good in the ways that matter most. also the way they did her bisexuality and her saying things like more guys should get over themselves and be bi it's 2018... just no (:

The character I love that everyone else hates: again, not sure who everyone hates but everyone on the show at least is constantly dismissive of and annoyed at jason (that adhd mood) when he's got this living (or not) business down better than any of them :')

The character I used to love but don’t any longer: janet?? idk as she got more 'human' through the seasons i liked her less, especially how much her 'humanity' was tied to/indicated by her developing romantic feelings :/ also the common thing of a character behaving more 'human' actually a lot just being this character behaving more neurotypical... and of course there's the 'diversity win! this not-robot who's misgendered constantly as a joke is nonbinary!' thing but that's not her fault 🤣

The character I would totally smooch: tahani maybe 😳

The character I’d want to be like: definitely jason, he's so at peace with the world and himself <3 also tahani by the end, the way she finishes the show single and knowing and respecting herself and it's framed as nothing but an absolute success is just UGH *chef's kiss* the ideal :') alas (no offense to chidi ofc) i've realised recently just how much of a chidi i am 😔😔

The character I’d slap: eleanor and tahani's parents :)

A pairing that I love: jason and tahani 🥺 doesn't mean i wanted them to end up together and it was absolutely right that they ended it but aaah they're so important <3 also jason and janet's relationship when it first started and it was literally just based on them being kind to each other 🥺🥺 and ofc the cheleanor in the last ep made me SOB

A pairing that I despise: not at all despise but the not quite queerbaiting haha eleanor will keep making side jokes that portray her attraction to women as way more trivial and insignificant compared to that to men and let everyone jump on the train but we'll never show any of it despite other characters having different relationships in different versions! :) :) :) thing w tahani gets on my nerves :/ also the fact that michael/shawn is a thing... roving white male slash fandom you really had your work cut out with this one and yet you managed it didn't you!! 🙃 also i'm not a fan of shipping michael with anyone, aside from anything else he is aroace and canonically repulsed by kissing :)

ty for the ask! 💛

#can you tell i love jason 🤣🤣#there's a lot to be said about neurodivergency in comedy #ask game #when people say they dislike characters bc they're 'dumb' when they exhibit the exact same traits i do #and i'm just sitting there like :l #...great

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Mammoth List of Feminist/Girl Power Books (200 + Books)

Lists of Real, Amazing Women Throughout History

Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World by Ann Shen

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls by Elena Favilli & Francesca Cavallo

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls 2 by Elena Favilli & Francesca Cavallo

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Immigrant Women Who Changed the World by Elena Favilli & Francesca Cavallo

Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World by Pénélope Bagieu, Montana Kane (Translator)

Rejected Princesses: Tales of History's Boldest Heroines, Hellions, and Heretics by Jason Porath

Tough Mothers: Amazing Stories of History’s Mightiest Matriarchs by Jason Porath

Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World by Rachel Ignotofsky

Bygone Badass Broads: 52 Forgotten Women Who Changed the World by Mackenzi Lee

Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History by Sam Maggs

The Little Book of Feminist Saints by Julia Pierpont

Rad Women Worldwide: Artists and Athletes, Pirates and Punks, and Other Revolutionaries Who Shaped History by Kate Schatz

Warrior Women: 3000 Years of Courage and Heroism by Robin Cross & Rosalind Miles

Women Who Dared: 52 Stories of Fearless Daredevils, Adventurers, and Rebels by Linda Skeers & Livi Gosling

100 Nasty Women of History by Hannah Jewell

The Warrior Queens by Antonia Fraser

Sea Queens: Women Pirates Around the World by Jane Yolen

The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience by Hillary Rodham Clinton & Chelsea Clinton

Fight Like a Girl: 50 Feminists Who Changed the World by Laura Barcella

Samurai Women 1184–1877 by Stephen Turnbull

A Black Woman Did That by Malaika Adero

Tales from Behind the Window by Edanur Kuntman

Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists: A Graphic History of Women's Fight for Their Rights by Mikki Kendall

Witches and Pagans: Women in European Folk Religion, 700-1100 by Max Dashu

Mad and Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency by Bea Koch

Modern HERstory: Stories of Women and Nonbinary People Rewriting History by Blair Imani

Individual and Group Portraits of Real, Amazing Women Throughout History

Alice Paul and the Fight for Women's Rights: From the Vote to the Equal Rights Amendment by Deborah Kops

Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All by Martha S. Jones

Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life by Jane Sherron De Hart

The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice by Patricia Bell-Scott

I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai, Christina Lamb

Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA by Amaryllis Fox

Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir by Cherríe L. Moraga

The Soul of a Woman by Isabel Allende

Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Alice Diamond and the Forty Elephants: The Female Gang That Terrorised London by Brian McDonald

Women Against the Raj: The Rani of Jhansi Regiment by Joyce Chapman Lebra

Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution by Sara Marcus

The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient World by Adrienne Mayor

Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars by Nathalia Holt

The Women of WWII (Non-Fiction)

Women Heroes of World War II: 26 Stories of Espionage, Sabotage, Resistance, and Rescue by Kathryn J. Atwood

Skyward: The Story of Female Pilots in WWII by Sally Deng

The Women with Silver Wings: The Inspiring True Story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II by Katherine Sharp Landdeck

The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II by Svetlana Alexievich, Richard Pevear (Translation), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translation)

Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved, and Died Under Nazi Occupation by Anne Sebba

To Serve My Country, to Serve My Race: The Story of the Only African-American Wacs Stationed Overseas During World War II by Brenda L. Moore

Standing Up Against Hate: How Black Women in the Army Helped Change the Course of WWII by Mary Cronk Farrell

Sisters and Spies: The True Story of WWII Special Agents Eileen and Jacqueline Nearne by Susan Ottaway

A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II by Sonia Purnell

The White Mouse by Nancy Wake

Code Name Hélène by Ariel Lawhon

Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II by Liza Mundy

Tomorrow to be Brave: A Memoir of the Only Woman Ever to Serve in the French Foreign Legion by Susan Travers & Wendy Holden

Pure Grit: How WWII Nurses in the Pacific Survived Combat and Prison Camp by Mary Cronk Farrell

Sisterhood of Spies by Elizabeth P. McIntosh

Spy Princess: The Life of Noor Inayat Khan by Shrabani Basu

Women in the Holocaust by Dalia Ofer

The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos by Judy Batalion

Night Witches: The Untold Story of Soviet Women in Combat by Bruce Myles

The Soviet Night Witches: Brave Women Bomber Pilots of World War II by Pamela Jain Dell

A Thousand Sisters: The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II by Elizabeth Wein

A Dance with Death: Soviet Airwomen in World War II by Anne Noggle

Avenging Angels: The Young Women of the Soviet Union's WWII Sniper Corps by Lyuba Vinogradova

The Women of WWII (Fiction)

Among the Red Stars by Gwen C. Katz

Night Witches by Kathryn Lasky

Night Witches by Mirren Hogan

Night Witch by S.J. McCormack

Flygirl by Sherri L. Smith

Daughters of the Night Sky by Aimie K. Runyan

The Lost Girls of Paris by Pam Jenoff

Code Name Verity series by Elizabeth Wein

Front Lines trilogy by Michael Grant

The Alice Network by Kate Quinn

All-Girl Teams (Fiction)

The Seafire trilogy by Natalie C. Parker

Elysium Girls by Kate Pentecost

The Good Luck Girls by Charlotte Nicole Davis

The Effigies trilogy by Sarah Raughley

Guardians of the Dawn series by S. Jae-Jones

Wolf-Light by Yaba Badoe

Undead Girl Gang by Lily Anderson

Burned and Buried by Nino Cipri

This Is What It Feels Like by Rebecca Barrow

The Wild Ones: A Broken Anthem for a Girl Nation by Nafiza Azad

We Rule the Night by Claire Eliza Bartlett

Tigers, Not Daughters by Samantha Mabry

The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion by Fannie Flagg

Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman

Bad Girls Never Say Die by Jennifer Mathieu

The Secret Life of Prince Charming by Deb Caletti

Kamikaze Girls by Novala Takemoto, Akemi Wegmüller (Translator)

The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See

The Passion of Dolssa by Julie Berry

The Scapegracers by Hannah Abigail Clarke

Sisters in Sanity by Gayle Forman

The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place by Julie Berry

The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix

The Lost Girls by Sonia Hartl

Hell's Belles series by Sarah MacLean

Jackdaws by Ken Follett

The Farmerettes by Gisela Tobien Sherman

A Sisterhood of Secret Ambitions by Sheena Boekweg

Feminist Retellings

Stepsister by Jennifer Donnelly

Poisoned by Jennifer Donnelly

Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust

The Girl Who Fell Beneath The Sea by Axie Oh

Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins by Emma Donoghue

Doomed by Laura Pohl

The Seventh Bride by T. Kingfisher

The Boneless Mercies by April Genevieve Tucholke

Seven Endless Forests by April Genevieve Tucholke

The Queens of Innis Lear by Tessa Gratton

A Thousand Nights by E.K. Johnston

Kate Crackernuts by Katharine M. Briggs

Legendborn series by Tracy Deonn

One for All by Lillie Lainoff

Feminist Dystopian and Horror Fiction

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Grace Year by Kim Liggett

Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand

Godshot by Chelsea Bieker

Women and Girls in Comedy

Crying Laughing by Lance Rubin

Stand Up, Yumi Chung by Jessica Kim

This Will Be Funny Someday by Katie Henry

Unscripted by Nicole Kronzer

Pretty Funny for a Girl by Rebecca Elliot

Bossypants by Tina Fey

We Killed: The Rise of Women in American Comedy by Yael Kohen

The Girl in the Show: Three Generations of Comedy, Culture, and Feminism by Anna Fields

Trans Women

Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More by Janet Mock

Nemesis series by April Daniels

American Transgirl by Faith DaBrooke

Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout by Laura Jane Grace

A Safe Girl to Love by Casey Plett

Gracefully Grayson by Ami Polonsky

Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars by Kai Cheng Thom

Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family by Amy Ellis Nutt

George by Alex Gino

The Witch Boy series by Molly Ostertag

Uncomfortable Labels: My Life as a Gay Autistic Trans Woman by Laura Kate Dale

She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders by Jennifer Finney Boylan

An Anthology of Fiction by Trans Women of Color by Ellyn Peña

Wandering Son by Takako Shimura

Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg

Feminist Poetry

Women Are Some Kind of Magic trilogy by Amanda Lovelace

Wild Embers: Poems of Rebellion, Fire and Beauty by Nikita Gill

Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul by Nikita Gill

Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters by Nikita Gill

The Girl and the Goddess by Nikita Gill

A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland by DaMaris B. Hill

Feminist Philosophy and Facts

The Creation of Patriarchy by Gerda Lerner

The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-Seventy by Gerda Lerner

Misogyny: The World's Oldest Prejudice by Jack Holland

White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hamad

We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism by Bushra Rehman

Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics by bell hooks

Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World by Kelly Jensen

The Equality Illusion by Kat Banyard

White Feminism: From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind by Koa Beck

Everyday Sexism by Laura Bates

I Have the Right To by Chessy Prout & Jenn Abelson

Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World by Kumari Jayawardena

The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

How to Suppress Women's Writing by Joanna Russ

Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color by Andrea Ritchie

Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks

Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment by Patricia Hill Collins

But Some of Us Are Brave: All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men: Black Women's Studies by Akasha Gloria Hull, Patricia Bell-Scott, Barbara Smith Women, Race, and Class by Angela Y. Davis This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe L. Moraga, Gloria E. Anzaldúa

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas D. Kristof & Sheryl WuDinn

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde

Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay

Difficult Women by Roxane Gay

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay

Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture by Roxane Gay

This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by by Cherríe Moraga & Gloria Anzaldúa

Power Shift: The Longest Revolution by Sally Armstrong

Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall

Had It Coming: What's Fair in the Age of #MeToo? by Robyn Doolittle

She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story that Helped Ignite a Movement by Jody Kantor & Megan Twohey

#Notyourprincess: Voices of Native American Women by Lisa Charleyboy

Girl Rising: Changing the World One Girl at a Time by Tanya Lee Stone

Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy, and the Fear of Female Power by Sady Doyle

Sisterhood is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings from the Women's Liberation Movement by Robin Morgan (Editor)

Girls Make Media by Mary Celeste Kearney

Rock She Wrote: Women Write about Rock, Pop, and Rap by Evelyn McDonnell (Editor)

You Play the Girl: And Other Vexing Stories That Tell Women Who They Are by Carina Chocano

Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl: A Memoir by Jeannie Vanasco

The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers by Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor), Hollis Robbins (Editor)

Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman by Lindy West

A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

Believe Me: How Trusting Women Can Change the World by Jessica Valenti and Jaclyn Friedman Bread Out of Stone: Recollections, Sex, Recognitions, Race, Dreaming, Politics by Dionne Brand

Other General Girl Power/Feminist Awesomeness

The Edge of Anything by Nora Shalaway Carpenter

Kat and Meg Conquer the World by Anna Priemaza

Talk Before Sleep by Elizabeth Berg

The Female of the Species by Mandy McGinnis

Pulp by Robin Talley

Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera

How to Save a Life by Sara Zarr

That Summer by Sarah Dessen

Someone Like You by Sarah Dessen

Honey, Baby, Sweetheart by Deb Caletti

The Girl With the Louding Voice by Abi Daré

Mrs. Everything by Jennifer Weiner

Beauty Queens by Libba Bray

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

American Girls by Alison Umminger

Don't Think Twice by Ruth Pennebaker

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women by Alice Walker

You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories by Alice Walker

Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo

Sula by Toni Morrison

Rose Sees Red by Cecil Castellucci

A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik

Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu

Rules for Being a Girl by Candace Bushnell & Katie Cotugno

None of the Above by I.W. Gregorio

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Orlando by Virginia Woolf

Everything Must Go by Jenny Fran Davis

The House on Olive Street by Robyn Carr

Orange Is the New Black by Piper Kerman

Queens of Geek by Jen Wilde

Lady Luck's Map of Vegas by Barbara Samuel

Fan the Fame by Anna Priemaza

Puddin' by Julie Murphy

A Heart in a Body in the World by Deb Caletti

Gravity Brings Me Down by Natale Ghent

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See

The Summer of Impossibilities by Rachael Allen

The Dead Girls of Hysteria Hall by Katie Alender

Don't Tell a Soul by Kirsten Miller

After the Ink Dries by Cassie Gustafson Girl, Unframed by Deb Caletti

We Are the Ashes, We Are the Fire by Joy McCullough

Maybe He Just Likes You by Barbara Dee

Things a Bright Girl Can Do by Sally Nicholls

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart

Uprising by Margaret Peterson Haddix

The Cure for Dreaming by Cat Winters

Dress Coded by Carrie Firestone

The Prettiest by Brigit Young

Don't Judge Me by Lisa Schroeder

The Roommate by Rosie Danan

Tomboy: A Graphic Memoir by Liz Prince

Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present by Lillian Faderman

All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation by Rebecca Traister

Paper Girls comic series by Brian K. Vaughan

Heavy Vinyl comic series by Carly Usdin

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