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She said Prosa und Gedichte sind wie Medikamente. Sie heilen den Riss, den die Wirklichkeit in die Vorstellungskraft schneidet.

She said The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are.

She said I’d never been comfortable with the demands of femininity, had always felt more like a boy, a gay boy, that I inhabited a gender position somewhere between the binaries of male and female, some impossible other, some impossible both. Trans, I was starting to realise, which isn’t to say I was transitioning from one thing to another, but rather that I inhabited a space in the centre, which didn’t exist, except there I was.

She said Far from destroying our most well-loved works of fiction, abandoning assumptions of the whiteness of our characters infinitely expands all of the fictional universes, whether it be the wizarding world or the Star Wars Galaxy.