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Catherine Cowie 🏳️‍⚧️
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Partner of @greenkat73.bsky.social. Superannuated queer. She/her Living on unceded Wurundjeri country.
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I changed my handle, as I own the domain ‘64ordle.au’ which is quicker to type than ‘catherine-cowie.bsky.social’.

I hope y’all understand. The current avatar photo was taken on 4 July 2022, and the banner picture more recently at a TMBG concert – a funny thing happened on the way to the forum …
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So… I’ve written a fanfic novel based on Alyson Greaves’ sci-fi novel of alienation and transformation, (kimmy).

You can read {steffy}, a novel in nine parts and seventy-two scenes:

HTML: 64ordle.au/steffy/

AO3: archiveofourown.org/works/70531936

ScribbleHub: www.scribblehub.com/series/18504...
{steffy}, by Catherine Cowie
64ordle.au
I couldn’t have done it without you.

💛_💛
There’s a few familiar characters you’ll encounter, and others drawn in from elsewhere…

(I’ve also posted links to other fanfics based on (kimmy) recently, as the entire field has burgeoned recently; my novel is the smallest of three that have been written more or less simultaneously.)
Also… (in the last week)

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So… I’ve written a fanfic novel based on Alyson Greaves’ sci-fi novel of alienation and transformation, (kimmy).

You can read {steffy}, a novel in nine parts and seventy-two scenes:

HTML: 64ordle.au/steffy/

AO3: archiveofourown.org/works/70531936

ScribbleHub: www.scribblehub.com/series/18504...
{steffy}, by Catherine Cowie
64ordle.au
The version on ScribbleHub is going up one part at a time each Thursday; if you prefer to power through in one sitting, it’s a relatively short novel of just over fifty thousand words, with download options for PDF and e-readers on AO3.

Please note the content warnings on this work and take care.
So… I’ve written a fanfic novel based on Alyson Greaves’ sci-fi novel of alienation and transformation, (kimmy).

You can read {steffy}, a novel in nine parts and seventy-two scenes:

HTML: 64ordle.au/steffy/

AO3: archiveofourown.org/works/70531936

ScribbleHub: www.scribblehub.com/series/18504...
{steffy}, by Catherine Cowie
64ordle.au
It’s a wonderful novel, and a surprisingly easy read in some ways; excruciating in others.
As for the question you ask at the end Jolyon—I believe the answer to it will be…

‘No.’

People like Falkner never apologise for brutalising the lives of trans people. Never in a hundred lifetimes.
I mean, gender dysphoria obviously has to be measured as a net social cost to a society. Seen in those terms surely the odd orchi, vaginoplasty, breast reduction or augmentation, or metioidoplasty has to be a net social good for a more cohesive social fabric. Sheesh, Ari.
‘From each according to their ability, to each according to their needs’ BUT EXCLUDING PROVISION OF DESIGNER VAGINAS, RIGHT?
I don’t think Aristophanes is really that fussed these days on how many bre-ke-ke-kes you ribbet.

Sorry, repeat. I think he’d be cheering on the frogs!

koax
Even the list of illustrations on that page is illuminating, as whatever Frank–Eunice, Angelo–Phyllis, and Jennie were up to in Stuyvesant Sq or the Bowery, they were fully aware that they were /not/ a new phenomenon, out of time. They were fully aware that there were others like them in past times.
Great.

I appear to be in BlueSky moderation jail because of the image import—from of all places, Wikipedia—being tagged as ‘explicit sexual imagery’.
I wonder whether BlueSky will have similar conniptions about the ancient statue, now usually referred to as ‘Sleeping Hermaphaditus’.

Remember, this is a /statue/.

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en.wikipedia.org
There’s a Wikipedia article for Jennie June (BSky moderation immediately slapped an ‘adult content’ warning on the preview picture, grr…)

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This is a riot. I strongly suspect the editor of the Medico-Legal Journal had to render the racier anatomical passages into Latin to avoid infringing the Comstock Act. (Yes, that Comstock Act.)
Alright I need a short story break before I dive back into another gargantuan anthology, so let's read one of the oldest transfemme books I'm aware of!

Autobiography of an Androgyne is one of the earliest "trans memoirs," published a solid 15 years before the commonly cited 'first' trans memoir.
Totes agree. Twin peaks of androgyny.
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Alt text! Not for the whole video, but at least for one of the most interesting frames...
Bless you all, Portland. And curse you for making me work out the alt text for this specific image.
It’s grim when the coroner directly sheets blame for a suicide (one of many) to the FUCKING INHUMANE anti-trans policies of the UK Labour Party.
london coroner's report on the suicide of 17yo leia sampson-grimbly last year following uk labour's formal ban on trans healthcare

tw: www.judiciary.uk/prevention-o...
The version on the Patreon is unchanged since June—I downloaded it again and it’s identical, for what it’s worth.
I downloaded it in June from Patreon, for what it’s worth…