Lovely image from 1800 depicting female deer with male-typical characteristics. It's titled 'Mannweiber unter dem Wilde' ('manwoman among the wild game', with thanks to @natureculture for help with the trans!). The title reflects the rampant anthropomorphism of the accompanying article. :transgender: 🦌 🏳️🌈
14 Young Adult short stories from bestselling and award-winning authors make a splash in Mermaids Never Drown exploring mermaids like we've never seen them before!
I am D. Castleberry, I am a queer writer who is making queer fiction, some of which will be steamy and some of which will be wholesome. I am just getting started but I suspect that the world is my oyster.
With a lot of other social media sites in constant flux, I've decided to grow my audience here on Mastodon! I'll be posting about writing, my writing, and books in general. I will typically always follow back, so drop me a hey!
You don't have to be focused on any of the above topics, just have something interesting to say, and a decent webcam to record with (unless you live near #Portland and want to record an interview in person!) Bonus points if you're willing to appear nonsexually topless on screen with me, but definitely not required. I'm also happy to blur your face out or whatever else you need, if you want to keep your identity anonymous.
And if you'd like to check out previous interviews I've done, you can see them here: https://www.toplesstopics.org/interviews/ (please keep in mind some of these are really old when I was a lot worse at conducting interviews, I think they're better now 😅 )
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I'm reading Charles Darwin's barnacle study with a queer eye with a mind towards developing my 2021 article 'Darwin's Closet' . . . but, doing a bit of googling around it, I find that someone on Reddit has already beat me to the core thesis . . . 🤨
Hall’ s creations are colorful picture books that celebrate diversity, uniqueness and families. I love the multicultural representation : children from all backgrounds and families from all around the world are shown celebrating or doing everyday activities.
#CfP for the #panel "Intersectional Crime Fiction: Investigating the #Genre", which will take place at the Northeast Modern Languages Association (#NeMLA#northeastMLA)
convention in Boston on March 7-10, 2024.
My 2021 article 'Darwin's Closet: The Queer Sides of The Descent of Man (1871)' in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society has now been viewed over 20K times! Please keep sharing: https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/191/2/323/6075648 🏳️🌈 🐒
🎂 A delightful birthday treat today, visiting Down House - former home of Charles Darwin - for the first time. This was long overdue!
Amid all the staid Victoriana, I couldn't help but think of Darwin writing about gynandromorphs, 'latent sex,' 'vice,' and 'extreme sensuality' here . . .
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