From af5bbf718fc09e875da3e3a36c3c85edd05a9723 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake" Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2017 17:18:07 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] "Title Sequence" --- content/2017/title-sequence.md | 17 +++++++++++++++++ content/drafts/title-sequence.md | 18 ------------------ 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-) create mode 100644 content/2017/title-sequence.md delete mode 100644 content/drafts/title-sequence.md diff --git a/content/2017/title-sequence.md b/content/2017/title-sequence.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e4ee03b --- /dev/null +++ b/content/2017/title-sequence.md @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +Title: Title Sequence +Date: 2017-01-08 17:13 +Category: fiction + +"Mark, did you _really_ need to bring me here for this?" whispered Caleb. + +"_Yes!_ No one can do the Don LaFontaine voice like you! I said I owe you a favor!" + +"Alright." + +It was time for the Gender Queery discussion group at the Q Center to begin. The facilitator read the rules (keep confidentiality, respect people's identities, use "I" statements, _&c._), and people began to introduce themselves. A man calling himself Augustina said that he identified as a nonbinary transfeminine demigirl and that his pronouns were _she_ or _they_. A woman named Laura said that she identified as fluidflux and that she took _they_/_them_ pronouns. + +When the circle got around to Mark, he kept silent as Caleb began to narrate: "Ever since puberty, he had fantasized about being more like the women he loved and admired. In a world teeming with the wonders of modern science, _fantasy_ becomes _reality_ ..." + +Mark stood up and said proudly, "My name is M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake, my pronouns are _he_/_him_, and as of last week, I am—" he lifted up the side of his shirt a few inches to reveal the estradiol patch, as Caleb finished: + +"_The man with the nonstandard hormone balance!_" diff --git a/content/drafts/title-sequence.md b/content/drafts/title-sequence.md deleted file mode 100644 index a94c0cb..0000000 --- a/content/drafts/title-sequence.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,18 +0,0 @@ -Title: Title Sequence -Date: 2020-01-01 -Category: fiction -Status: draft - -"Mark, did you _really_ need to bring me here for this?" whispered Caleb. - -"_Yes!_ No one can do the Don LaFontaine voice like you! I said I owe you a favor!" - -"Alright." - -[description of other people checking in and giving their identities/pronouns http://www.pdxqcenter.org/gender-queery/ (also, misgender them as "a man", "a woman", &c.) ] - -"Ever since puberty, he had dreamed of being more like the women he loved and admired. In a world teeming with the wonders of modern science, _fantasy_ becomes _reality_ ..." - -Mark stood up. "My name is M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake, my pronouns are _he_/_him_, and I am—" He lifted up the side of his shirt a few inches to reveal the estradiol patch. - -"_The man with the nonstandard hormone balance!_" -- 2.17.1