The Collection: Short Fiction from the Transgender Vanguard

4:00 pm 15 July 2015
The Collection: Short Fiction from the Transgender Vanguard - Alice Doyle, Everett Maroon, Carter Sickels, Katherine Scott Nelson, Tom Léger, Riley MacLeod, Ryka Aoki, Susan Jane Bigelow, Imogen Binnie, Casey Plett, Red Durkim, K. Tait Jarboe, R. Drew, RJ Edwards, A. Raymond Johnson, Donna Ostrowsky, Terence Diamond, Cyd Nova, Mikki I liked this for the most part, though granted I skipped over at least 5 of the stories. I am pretty sure my favorites were Greenhorn by K. Tait Jarboe (rape tw), To The New World by Ryka Aoki, Runaways by Calvin Gimpelevich, Ramona's Demons by Susan Jane Bigelow, Dean & Teddy by Elliot DeLine, and War With Waking Up by Noel Arthur Heimpel (I cannot explain how utterly accurate and relatable this is to read as a mentally ill trans person).

I didn't like "The Queer Experiment" by Donna Ostrowsky specifically, mostly because THERE IS NOTHING TRANS ABUT THE STORY. Nothing made clear at least. I guess you could read any of the characters as trans if you wanted but literally nothing is stated and it felt like a waste of time to read when I got the anthology to read about trans characters.