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An illustration of a brown person with short black hair holding the hand of a brown person with long black hair, talking to a supernatural creature who is explaining something to them. They’re sitting in a magical forest area.

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Trans Fiction, Trans Imagination: I Will Answer Your Questions, If You Listen Closely

You want to know where you came from, is that it? Do not be embarrassed. Nature did not see motherhood in me, either.

viengsamai —

Jul 2, 2021

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trans fiction trans imagination

the featured image for the story; our narrator in the love circle. Her hand is on the butch base's knee and she's got one eye open to look at them.

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Trans Fiction, Trans Imagination: Notes on (AcroYoga) Camp

Sitting there, eyes closed, I could feel the subtle movements of the two people I was touching. To my right—someone I’d never met. I’d glimpsed basketball shorts, ragged tee, short…

Nat Mesnard —

May 14, 2021

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a crowd of people looking at a strange ship (READ: UFO) hovering over the capital, emitting an eerie yellow) holding cell phones with no service symbols on them

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We Could Be Heroes

Malinda Lo’s all-new short story about an inauguration protest that’s interrupted by an alien invasion is available exclusively on Autostraddle dot com!

Malinda Lo —

Oct 1, 2018

april fools day or whatever

fanfiction

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Original Shenny Fan Fiction: “This Is What I Want”

It’s 2017, and married power lesbians Jenny Schecter and Shane McCutcheon face some tough stuff only days before Carmen De La Pica Morales is coming in for a weekend visit…

Riese —

Apr 1, 2018

donald trump is not my president

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A Proposal

“It is a matter of national survival that we never get used to the president’s hair.”

Diana Goetsch —

Mar 2, 2017

Intense Lesbian Fanfiction

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Intense Lesbian Fanfiction, Part Three: That Escalated Quickly

“Blaze squinted in the mirror and pushed her hair left, then right, then left, then right, then left, then right, then righter, then really left, then up a little, then…

Emma Hunsinger —

Feb 18, 2014

Intense Lesbian Fanfiction

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Intense Lesbian Fanfiction Part Two: Courtney’s In a Coma

“Of course I’ve heard of Smith! Are you fucking kidding me? Every lesbian has heard of Smith. It’s fucking Lesbian Hogwarts. God. They’re all there, with their hair always on…

Emma Hunsinger —

Feb 11, 2014

Intense Lesbian Fanfiction

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Intense Lesbian Fanfiction, Part One: Blaze Is Here

“The night was deep and dark over Ellen DeGeneres’ Burbank mansion. Inside her mahogany themed living room, Ellen sat in a velvet high back chair and quietly sipped whisky out…

Emma Hunsinger —

Feb 4, 2014

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