Hannah Steenbock<p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> 3/31. Happy International Transgender Day of Visibility! What trans author has inspired you the most?</p><p>I don't think I know many trans author. Probably, I do and am just not aware they are trans. It is not something that... I want to push front and center. I do have a few trans friends, and they matter as themselves.</p><p>There is one here who is a dear friend, and they have a couple of stories published - <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://writing.exchange/@hiisikoloart" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>hiisikoloart</span></a></span> . Do check them out, give them a follow.</p><p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a></p>
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Pete Alex Harris🦡🕸️🌲/∞🪐∫<p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> 31 Mar<br>Happy International Transgender Day of Visibility! What trans author has inspired you the most?</p><p>This sort of question can sound like "have you heard of any trans authors at all?"</p><p>And that's OK. The day is about visibility. Any at all is better than none.</p><p>For poetry, Jay Hulme.<br>For SF, Charlie Jane Anders.<br>For microfiction and incisive analysis, Alexandra Erin.</p>
Anderlandbooks<p><a href="https://bookstodon.com/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> Mar 31. Happy International Transgender Day of Visibility! What trans author has inspired you the most?</p><p>I must admit I don't know. I don't pay that much attention to the author unless it's someone I met here.</p><p>And plus, I don't care much whether a person is trans or whatever as long as I like their story.</p><p>I might think differently if I was friends w/ a trans person irl and more familiar w/ their struggles (like with LBG). Maybe? 🤷♀️</p>
Em<p><a href="https://bookstodon.com/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> March 31: Happy International Transgender Day of Visibility! What trans author has inspired you the most?</p><p>Only the most inspiring of all? That would be Akwaeke Emezi.</p><p>Then there's Cat Fitzpatrick, whose novel in verse "The Call-Out" I'm reading right now, and certainly getting plenty of ideas from.</p>
Jon Sparks<p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> March 31. Happy International Transgender Day of Visibility! What trans author has inspired you the most?<br>I have a friend who’s written several books, who is now transitioning but did not identify as trans when writing them, and they still carry her deadname… so I’m delicately putting her to one side. <br>So I’m going (and I’m not the first) with Charlie Jane Anders, with an honourable mention for Sarah McBride.<br><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/writersofmastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writersofmastodon</span></a></p>
NaraMoore ⛩️👻八尺様👻⛩️ at Fedi<p>I am not sure I am interrupting your post correctly. But one highlights trans authors for the same reason you highlight any other group that has been discriminated against, systematically silenced, and locked out of the publishing industry. The same reason you support POC authors, women authors, ASD authors, etc.</p><p>It is not necessarily because they write about being that minority; it is because they are routinely silenced. Whatever they write in someway reflects their life experience as a marginalized individual.</p><p>I fit none of the criteria you mention, yet my characters reflect the realities of being trans, lesbian, and/or asexual. Undoubtedly, it also reflects life as ASD without my being aware of it.</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://historians.social/@elysegrasso" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>elysegrasso</span></a></span> <br><a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/Trans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trans</span></a> <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/actuallyautistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>actuallyautistic</span></a> <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/Asexual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Asexual</span></a> <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/TransgenderDayofVisibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TransgenderDayofVisibility</span></a> <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a></p>
Elyse M Grasso<p><a href="https://historians.social/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> March 31. Happy International Transgender Day of Visibility! What trans author has inspired you the most?</p><p>Unless a work is openly autobiographical or political or topical -- strongly focused on some aspects of the trans experience, particularly transition as such -- making a fuss about the author being trans feels wrong. Not quite dead-naming them, but leaning in that direction.</p>
Chad Grayson<p><a href="https://mastodon.otherworldsink.com/tags/writerscoffeeclub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writerscoffeeclub</span></a> March 30. Do you label your works as LGBTQIA+? Why or why not?</p><p>Most of them these days, yes because they are and I want them to find the right readers, and I don't think there can ever be enough own voices queer books in the world.</p>
Sax Brightwell 🪐<p><a href="https://indieauthors.social/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> 31. Happy International Transgender Day of Visibility! What trans author has inspired you the most?</p><p>I don’t know if he would want to be named in this venue, but - a fandom friend. He was the first author I knew was trans whose writing really grabbed my attention.</p>
Klepsis<p><a href="https://indieauthors.social/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a><br><a href="https://indieauthors.social/tags/EpigraphCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EpigraphCoffeeClub</span></a></p><p>"Everyone has a style, whether you think you do or not." — <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://meow.social/@GrayWolf57" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>GrayWolf57</span></a></span></p><p>30 Do you label your works as LGBTQIA+? Why or why not?</p><p>No, I wouldn't want to give anyone the idea that there was significant representation. I hope the tiny amount there is a authentic, but I wouldn't want to draw attention in case it isn't. </p><p><a href="https://indieauthors.social/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writing</span></a></p>
K.N. Brindle (they/them)<p><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> Do you label your works as LGBTQIA+? Why or why not?</p><p>I don't tend to label my books as “queer SFF” so much as “SFF that centers queer characters” I think it's a distinction worth making. Having said that, most of my work centers trans/nonbinary agender characters, because that's who I am, and those lived experiences invariably color my work and deserve to be seen and featured.</p>
Mike Sharpe Writer<p><a href="https://mograph.social/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> <a href="https://mograph.social/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writing</span></a> March 30 Do you label your works as LGBTQIA+? Why or why not?</p><p>Barely. I do have a few characters that would fly the LGBTIA+ flag.</p><p>Solen Masters doesn't go too deep in to their relationships and more on the action on the battlefield, so no flag.</p><p>Project Watt is clearly not ready for release, but probably will get the flag, given the major characters. (The PW name is just something I could use to talk about it.) (Some have both male & female parts in their shorts.)</p>
tobadzistsini<p><a href="https://bonequest.net/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> Do you label your works as LGBTQIA+? Why or why not?</p><p>No. Characters are characters. Sexual preferences should not be used as a tag, a genre, or a marketing gimmick. They go to the supermarket, use the toilet, and laugh at the same jokes as other people. If a character happens to fall somewhere on that spectrum, there's no outlandish reveal and support party to convey how supportive I am of them and their existence.</p>
Quasi<p><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> 30: Label works as LGBTQIA+?</p><p>I do if it's relevant? "Time & Tied" wouldn't qualify, Carrie only kissed a girl and entered a relationship late in the narrative. The sequel would qualify, there's a whole lesbian love triangle.</p><p>Related, any Epsilon story with Beam wouldn't qualify if she's busy running the station. Any story with Rose would qualify, because her understanding being lesbian is wrapped up in her narrative.</p><p>FWIW, I'm not queer myself, only on the spectrum.</p>
Bern<p>Writers’ Coffee Club for 31st March 2025</p><p>31. Happy International Transgender Day of Visibility! What trans author has inspired you the most?</p><p>I’m sorry to say I cannot name any trans authors off the top of my head. I may have read works by some, but if so I’m unaware of their status. To a large extent I don’t pay all that much attention to such things, instead I just look for good writers, irrespective of gender.</p><p>In many ways, I prefer it that way, because then I don't come to their writing with any preconceptions or biases (of which I have far too many!), but instead assess it for its own merit.</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a></p>
Ciel :sadness:<p><a href="https://blorbo.social/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> March 31. Happy International Transgender Day of Visibility! What trans author has inspired you the most?</p><p>Beau van Dalen. I felt seen in his work :-)</p>
Steven D. Brewer 🏳️⚧️<p><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> Do you label your works as LGBTQIA+? Why or why not?</p><p>Maybe? I label myself as an author of LGBTQIA+ fiction. One of my friends said my writing isn't really queer fiction because, although I have queer protagonists and situations, the works aren't really *about* that. *Revin's Heart* is just a young-mans adventure story about a person who happens to be trans. But they haven't read *Lady Cecelia's Journey*. That might be closer.</p>
NaraMoore ⛩️👻八尺様👻⛩️ at Fedi<p><a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> March 31. Happy International Transgender Day of Visibility! What trans author has inspired you the most?</p><p>With unwarranted ego, myself. A hard working, under appreciated trans author. Trans, <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/transmasc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transmasc</span></a>, <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/transfem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transfem</span></a>, <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/lesbian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lesbian</span></a> <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/bisexual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bisexual</span></a>, <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/asexual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>asexual</span></a>, <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/otherkin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>otherkin</span></a>, etc. characters.</p><p>New chapter each week.</p><p>Join Ume & her family as their relationships develop. In a creepy world where “love” never dies.</p><p>pixiv.net/novel/series/11417104<br><a href="https://archiveofourown.org/works/52770025" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archiveofourown.org/works/5277</span><span class="invisible">0025</span></a></p><p><a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/Trans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trans</span></a> <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/TransgenderDayofVisibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TransgenderDayofVisibility</span></a> <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/sapphic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sapphic</span></a> <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/KonbiniIdol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KonbiniIdol</span></a> <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/NMWCC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NMWCC</span></a></p>
SuzyShearer<p><a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> March 31. Happy International Transgender Day of Visibility! What trans author has inspired you the most?</p><p>To be honest I wouldn’t know if they were. I read a book based on it being something I think I’d like. For all I know some of my favourite authors may be trans, it simply makes no different - an author is an author.</p>
Mariam al-Masri<p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/writerscoffeeclub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writerscoffeeclub</span></a> 30. Do you label your works as LGBTQIA+? Why or why not?</p><p>Tbh, I don't. My main pairing is MF and I do have charecters that are genderfluid and in my current WIP my FMC has has slept with women but not men while my MMC has slept w/both genders. </p><p>At the same time both leads wouldn't really identify as queer b/c modern standards weren't a thing. Public baths were hookup spots and not seen as cheating & to them they would have identified as a filial couple.</p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/historicalfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>historicalfiction</span></a></p>
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