I'm going to make an autobiographical graphic novel about my gender issues... It will start out in my childhood, never clearly establishing whether I am a boy or a girl (as it wasn't when I was a kid) and then like 30 pages in, puberty hits and you have to turn the book upside down and read it manga-style, right to left, as I try to be a normal girl, and then my dreams and role-paying as a male would be right-side up and left-to-right again... It's intended to be clumsy to drive home the "WTF" feeling of trying to get used to each gender switch, but for western readers the left-to-right sections will feel natural and the right-to-left assumed but you get a little used to it, just as the differing gender roles and forced behavior feels.
I thought it was frickin brilliant when I came up with it last night, somebody punch me in the face if you think it'll suck... Otherwise, I think I'm going to be a little loose with it and make it semi-autobio with a little dramatization to make things more clear. It might also be cool to include experiences I may not have had but that were incredibly important in the lives of other TS individuals, so if any of you have a vignette, a short scene, from your own life that you think is important in a positive OR negative way, it'd be awesome if you could write it up for inclusion, trying to be as detailed and real as you can cuz it's the realism and personality that would make this thing hit home. Anything I include I would credit.
I want to make it have an impact. I want it to be a work of art that will shine the light on a very real issue that is very misunderstood, and try, not to explain it away, but to make people empathize with the craziness of the situation for us.
