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b'Straight writers frequently portray cisgender heterosexual characters with twisted sexual pathologies or dysfunctional, miserable relationships. But when an emerging sci-fi writer published a sharp, witty, in-your-face short story about a transgender helicopter pilot in a dystopian future, prominent members of the writing community rushed to viciously condemn her until she withdrew her work and went into hiding.
\\nIn this episode, horror writer Gretchen Felker-Martin joins us to talk about the importance of making space for transgressive fiction by queer writers. We also discuss didactive versus expressive art, the trap of respectability that queer creatives fall into, and Isabel Fall\\u2019s \\u201cI Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter.\\u201d (And Raquel mispronounces the word didactic several dozen times.)
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\\n* Gretchen\\u2019s Twitter
\\n* Gretchen\\u2019s Patreon
\\n* She Kills People From 7,85- Miles Away
\\n* Drone Disorientations: How \\u201cUnmanned\\u201d Weapons Queer the Experience of Killing in War
\\n* The Right\\u2019s One Joke:
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\\n* \\u201cI Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter\\u201d (via Wayback)
\\n* What\\u2019s the Harm in Reading?
\\n* That Tyler the Creator tweet:
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\\n* The Abominable Act: Depictions of Gay Sex in Horror Film
\\n* An Attempted Suicide Forced a Tumblr Community to Open Its Eyes About Bullying
\\n* Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House
\\n* \\u2018Better Call Saul\\u2019 Gets the Point of Prestige TV
\\n* Wealthy Teen Nearly Experiences Consequences
\\n* Me Sowing, Me Reaping:
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\\n* Remembering Hollywood\\u2019s Hays Code 40 Years Later
\\n* Yoon Ha Lee on being trans
\\n* PORPENTINE
\\n* Briar Ripley Page
\\n* Torrey Peters
\\n* Black Dresses
\\n* {familia} KM Claude
\\n* The Pervert, Michelle Perez and Remy Boydell
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\\nAbout Rite Gud: R.S. Benedict is an author, appearing in Fantasy and Science Fiction and Gardner Dozois’ The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of The Year’s Best Science Fiction.\\xa0Matt Keeley, founder of Kittysneezes, is producing\\xa0Rite Gud for KS Media, LLC.\\xa0Rite Gud is a Kittysneezes production. If you have questions, comments and concerns, email ritegud – at – kittysneezes – dot – com.\\xa0Rite Gud is also on Patreon, at patreon.com/ritegud. Patrons receive access to the official Kittysneezes Discord, exclusive episodes, critiques and more.
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