Torrey Peters

But the value in it for me is like, maybe this will free people a little bit to read it. To basically be like... If the sexuality is getting so kind of baroque because of the fear and the repression, you know, maybe that is a sign that something's going on with your gender. Maybe you can actually figure this out.

But the value in it for me is like, maybe this will free people a little bit to read it. To basically be like... If the sexuality is getting so kind of baroque because of the fear and the repression, you know, maybe that is a sign that something's going on with your gender. Maybe you can actually figure this out.

Well, I think that there's a tradition of this outside of just trans communities of great writers creating characters who are really difficult to talk about the real issues in a way that feels, in the end, liberatory. You can think of Philip Roth writing Poor Noise Complaint, you know, which was totally Jewish communities were like, this is an outrageous caricature.

Well, I think that there's a tradition of this outside of just trans communities of great writers creating characters who are really difficult to talk about the real issues in a way that feels, in the end, liberatory. You can think of Philip Roth writing Poor Noise Complaint, you know, which was totally Jewish communities were like, this is an outrageous caricature.

Well, I think that there's a tradition of this outside of just trans communities of great writers creating characters who are really difficult to talk about the real issues in a way that feels, in the end, liberatory. You can think of Philip Roth writing Poor Noise Complaint, you know, which was totally Jewish communities were like, this is an outrageous caricature.

I think a lot about Toni Morrison writing The Bluest Eye. Oh, yeah. Those kinds of things that the 10-year-old girl thinks about sort of valorizing blue eyes or certainly the treatment of her very abusive father towards her in a black family, all of that could have been weaponized.

I think a lot about Toni Morrison writing The Bluest Eye. Oh, yeah. Those kinds of things that the 10-year-old girl thinks about sort of valorizing blue eyes or certainly the treatment of her very abusive father towards her in a black family, all of that could have been weaponized.

I think a lot about Toni Morrison writing The Bluest Eye. Oh, yeah. Those kinds of things that the 10-year-old girl thinks about sort of valorizing blue eyes or certainly the treatment of her very abusive father towards her in a black family, all of that could have been weaponized.

But to me, you can't understand the context of racism if you don't see the tragedy of it, if you don't see the way that it can warp a young girl's visions of beauty or warp the way a family looks. And similarly, I think you can't see how transphobia and fear of trans people's

But to me, you can't understand the context of racism if you don't see the tragedy of it, if you don't see the way that it can warp a young girl's visions of beauty or warp the way a family looks. And similarly, I think you can't see how transphobia and fear of trans people's

But to me, you can't understand the context of racism if you don't see the tragedy of it, if you don't see the way that it can warp a young girl's visions of beauty or warp the way a family looks. And similarly, I think you can't see how transphobia and fear of trans people's

expression and the way that that locks us down can cause such suffering if you don't show the bad parts, if you don't show the consequences of that. And to me, I think that's both important for trans people to recognize and it's important for other readers to recognize that if you say this character seems to me sort of monstrous, well, why?

expression and the way that that locks us down can cause such suffering if you don't show the bad parts, if you don't show the consequences of that. And to me, I think that's both important for trans people to recognize and it's important for other readers to recognize that if you say this character seems to me sort of monstrous, well, why?

expression and the way that that locks us down can cause such suffering if you don't show the bad parts, if you don't show the consequences of that. And to me, I think that's both important for trans people to recognize and it's important for other readers to recognize that if you say this character seems to me sort of monstrous, well, why?

The first story, they unleash a contagion that kind of almost destroys the world and world-ending fury is a result of the kind of treatment that these characters feel.

The first story, they unleash a contagion that kind of almost destroys the world and world-ending fury is a result of the kind of treatment that these characters feel.

The first story, they unleash a contagion that kind of almost destroys the world and world-ending fury is a result of the kind of treatment that these characters feel.

Sure. It's the sci-fi novella in the book. It takes place in Seattle where two trans girls infect the entire world with a contagion that has the effect of blocking the body's ability to produce hormones so that everyone will have to basically take artificial hormones because their own body's not producing it.

Sure. It's the sci-fi novella in the book. It takes place in Seattle where two trans girls infect the entire world with a contagion that has the effect of blocking the body's ability to produce hormones so that everyone will have to basically take artificial hormones because their own body's not producing it.

Sure. It's the sci-fi novella in the book. It takes place in Seattle where two trans girls infect the entire world with a contagion that has the effect of blocking the body's ability to produce hormones so that everyone will have to basically take artificial hormones because their own body's not producing it.