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Kacen Callender (they/them) and Felix Ever After (2020) - Coggle Diagram
Kacen Callender (they/them) and
Felix Ever After
(2020)
"For trans and nonbinary youth: You're beautiful. You're important. You're valid. You're perfect" (Callender's dedication)
cry counter: 3.5
Felix's questioning of the stability of "boy"
the gallery scene and the anti-trans bullying
the Ezra friendship and the "I'm too boring"
unsent email drafts to his mom
Transgender terms:
https://www.glaad.org/reference/trans-terms
transgender is an adjective, not a noun. it also doesn't need an extra "ed" (i.e. transgendered);
deadnaming
nonbinary
Transgender history: what is "Stonewall"?
Silvia Rivera "Bitch on Wheels" (2001)
uh oh, despite being on the front lines and the most visible, trans lives and activists were kept in the background of liberation
trans communities support "gay and lesbian" but it's not reciprocated
Jean O'Leary (transgender community was offensive to women)
gay bars spatially organized by racialized structures
the problems with "mainsteaming" and being in a "liberated closet" -- this is about folks buying in to political structures for straight people
ok, but some people want things?
Lucy Hicks Anderson "I defy any doctor in the world to prove that I am not a woman"
the novel's working through of privileges (class, racialization, genders, cisnormative frameworks)
Ezra's money:
"There's a spark of frustration in my chest. Ezra gets to have a midlife crisis" (53) ; the 1st person narration folds us in. The "Me?" hails readers; it's also a consistent use of "I" and "me" instead of a we (oh, hi, where is your father?) maybe a missed opportunity for collectivity;
Declan
the "I'm the fraud? Really" (pg 13). the use of passive voice to bury "implication made"
Marisol's terf logics: all men are inherently against women? It uses biology and gender conformity to (mis)understand patriarchy and capitalism; transphobic use of "choice";
YA lit ad queer resistance and remapping the futures on their own terms; also Rivera was a young adult (not even 18)
Why trick us with the "old man" trope who turns out to be adorable and supportive; sets the tone of misrecognition
use of IG messages: lucky, the keansester's "use of negative space" visual foreshadowing
IG archives the book as 2020; marks the book of the now
does the IG platform
queer assemblages and queer intertexts
Cara Delevigne and Rihana (pg 8); the idea of music to bring collective sensations
the use of
Mulan
to invoke history of animation and gender variance and history of queer/animations of desire