“Trans people are happy being trans. It is not a mistake. It is a community. We have our own unique cultural expressions.”

The original thesis is an engaging read, well worth the time to do so.

If creators think a trans or queer character alone is enough to get money from our people, will they spend time crafting a meaningful story with transness and queerness, or will they just use it as set dressing and a marketing checkbox?

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 is that

Missed Connections With Tall Girls is, first and foremost, a book about being homeless and broke.

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

All in all, The Flowers I Deserve is an enthralling, sexy but simplistic fairytale, devoid of the edges and stakes missing from the author’s previous works.