The Complete History of Transgender Characters in American Comic Bookshttp://www.autostraddle.com/the-complete-history-of-transgender-characters-in-american-comic-books-316126/Autostraddle/by rory midhani 11/17/2015
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The Complete History of Transgender Characters in American Comic Books
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by rory midhani
by rory midhani
It's Trans Awareness Week, the week leading up to Trans Day of Remembrance on November 20th. When we say that Autostraddle is website primarily for queer women, we want to be 100% clear that that includes queer trans women and that it's important to honor trans women year-round, not just in obituaries. So all week long we're going to be spotlighting articles by and about trans women, with a special focus on trans women of color. We hope you'll love reading everything as much as we've loved writing and editing it.
"I've been reading comics ever since I was in elementary school, when I would go to the public library and run upstairs to the comic section and check out whatever graphic novels they had, even if I had read them a dozen times before. But it wasn't until I was a teenager that I saw my first trans character in a comic book. Like many people, my first experience with a trans comic character was in Neil Gaiman's Sandman. I remember when I was in high school opening up Volume 2, titled The Doll's House, and reading issue #14, Collectors. This issue focuses on a serial killer's convention and predictably features some extremely disturbing content."
