![]() I certainly had to figure that out.īut an example I always use is, when I moved to New York for the first time, I realized that there are all these landmarks and part of the geography of New York that I had already sort of known or understood the references to, both in terms of getting around and also as social indicators. It was big for me when I realized that I could do that. ![]() And we’re going to bring it up when they become part of the texture of life in these very real and gorgeous and intrinsic ways. I’m re-reading Calvin Gimpelevich’s Invasions right now, and I think he is a master at this, not only with transness, but also with class and race and gender, where there are these things that matter so much in these characters’ lives, but also we’re only going to bring them up as writers when it makes sense. ![]() As with any skills that writers have where stuff becomes relevant as it needs to become relevant, once you get it, it’s kind of like riding a bike, it just kind of becomes a natural thing. I just don’t actually really think that’s difficult. ![]() Can you talk about rendering transness as simultaneously in the foreground and the background for your characters? ![]() For all the women in these stories, the fact that they’re trans is in some ways very important and in some ways very banal, which is true to life. ![]()
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