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pauraque_bkYeah, all right, I'm doing Nano. This is me.
I wasn't sure if I was going to do it because I didn't have an outline ready, but I went ahead and started on an idea I've had kicking around for a few weeks. It's set in my conworld, though it is not, of course, actually in a conlang (title aside). It's about a female-assigned person in a Renaissance era society who ends up taking on the identity of a male eunuch. Lately I've become interested in how gender variant people deal/dealt with it in cultures where the transgender narrative doesn't exist -- there is no name for who you are or what you want, yet you still have to figure out some way of being in the world. (And let's be clear -- there are people in this culture whose gender identity is not adequately provided for by The Two Boxes.) I could go on about this but I'd better save it for the book.
Anyone else taking on the challenge this year?
I wasn't sure if I was going to do it because I didn't have an outline ready, but I went ahead and started on an idea I've had kicking around for a few weeks. It's set in my conworld, though it is not, of course, actually in a conlang (title aside). It's about a female-assigned person in a Renaissance era society who ends up taking on the identity of a male eunuch. Lately I've become interested in how gender variant people deal/dealt with it in cultures where the transgender narrative doesn't exist -- there is no name for who you are or what you want, yet you still have to figure out some way of being in the world. (And let's be clear -- there are people in this culture whose gender identity is not adequately provided for by The Two Boxes.) I could go on about this but I'd better save it for the book.
Anyone else taking on the challenge this year?
