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By Jane Migliara Brigham ‘Chicken Heart’ is a trans coming-of-age story by graphic novelist Morgan Boecher. The main character is a repressed trans man spurred into action by the death of his exiled trans aunt. Where ‘Chicken Heart’ succeeds where many similar trans coming of age stories fail
Missed Connections With Tall Girls is, first and foremost, a book about being homeless and broke.
“The prime directive is bullshit in Star Trek and it’s bullshit in gender. If you have the power to minimize suffering you have a moral obligation to exercise it.”
What if you found an identical version of yourself somewhere in the outside world, and you stopped at nothing to find her?
It's one thing to show idealized images of past figures; it's another to make them feel real
The filmmaker speaks to The Needle about trans culture and trans cinema in a long-form interview. This is The Needle's latest culture coverage.
The filmmaker speaks to The Needle about trans culture and trans cinema in a long-form interview. This is The Needle's latest culture coverage.
The anger around people using new words to describe themselves has nothing to do with the word itself, and everything to do with who gets to be understood.
