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Started by EdgarAllanPoet, April 04, 2015, 01:52:45 PM

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EdgarAllanPoet

April 04, 2015, 01:52:45 PM
Hi everyone!

Do any of you use wattpad? It's a site to publish stories and read them. I was thinking of making a account to publish trans stories. The stories wouldn't have to focus around being transgender but it'd be good to see a transgender character in novels.
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Gabrielle_22

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April 04, 2015, 03:02:59 PM
I haven't used Wattpad, but since you mentioned transgender characters in novels, I just wanted to point out a few recent ones (which I only learnt about relatively recently myself). There's still very little visibility for transgender issues or characters in fiction, broadly, as the field of trans* literature disproportionately has favoured nonfiction narratives thus far, but here are some I've read that you might consider checking out, if you haven't already:

Kim Fu - For Today I Am a Boy
Ariel Schrag - Adam
Rachel Gold - Just Girls
Alex Myers - Revolutionary (sort of--more about transcending gender boundaries, but the author is FTM)
Shani Mootoo - Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab

And for a short story collection, I would highly recommend Casey Plett's A Safe Girl to Love.

Still a long way to go, but trans* fiction is a slowly emerging category.
"The time will come / when, with elation / you will greet yourself arriving / at your own door, in your own mirror / and each will smile at the other's welcome, / and say, sit here. Eat. / You will love again the stranger who was your self./ Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart / to itself, to the stranger who has loved you / all your life, whom you ignored" - Walcott, "Love after Love"
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Lady Smith

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April 04, 2015, 04:05:17 PM
I've used Wattpad, but only as a reader as I haven't tried to publish anything there.
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