No Man of Woman Born by Ana Mardoll
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lightreadsNo Man of Woman Born
3/5. Collection of fantasy short stories, several transformative, all featuring nonbinary/trans/genderfluid people.
Good idea, repetitive execution. There are seven stories in this collection and six of them can be summarized as 'there's this prophecy about who can defeat [insert evil here] – and no one understands how the prophecy is actually talking about a non-cisgendered person.' Which is mildly entertaining once. By the third time it's madlibs (this time with a trans person and a warlord! That time with a genderfluid person and – I honestly can't remember which evil goes here). This is on purpose, mind you – these are supposed to be stories about how destiny sees the gender nonconforming person properly. But if you aren't hungry for that kind of affirmation, all these stories are doing basically the same thing.
Still, representation is representation, and I appreciate the assiduous use of content notes. Probably a really good find for a gender nonconforming teen, or someone else who actually is hungry for affirmation.
3/5. Collection of fantasy short stories, several transformative, all featuring nonbinary/trans/genderfluid people.
Good idea, repetitive execution. There are seven stories in this collection and six of them can be summarized as 'there's this prophecy about who can defeat [insert evil here] – and no one understands how the prophecy is actually talking about a non-cisgendered person.' Which is mildly entertaining once. By the third time it's madlibs (this time with a trans person and a warlord! That time with a genderfluid person and – I honestly can't remember which evil goes here). This is on purpose, mind you – these are supposed to be stories about how destiny sees the gender nonconforming person properly. But if you aren't hungry for that kind of affirmation, all these stories are doing basically the same thing.
Still, representation is representation, and I appreciate the assiduous use of content notes. Probably a really good find for a gender nonconforming teen, or someone else who actually is hungry for affirmation.