[ SECRET POST #2199 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2199 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Dragon Age 2]


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[Baby-sitters Club]


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[The Twelve Kingdoms]


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[Dangan Ronpa]


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[Homestuck]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 023 secrets from Secret Submission Post #314.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

Re: queer fiction by non-queer writers

[chardmonster]

I'm not doing a thing, I'm just curious.

There are a lot of people who know exactly what it's like to desire a person of the same sex that wouldn't read as particularly unstraight. They might even be in relationships with people of the opposite sex! Are they queer enough? Is this instead a you-know-it-when-you-read-it sort of thing? I admit this has a little to do with myself, albeit with nonfiction. I'm definitely not straight but I'd have a hard time selling myself as a Chard The LGBT Academic what with the boyfriend and all.

I'm not sure what asexual fiction would be unless it's dealing directly with asexuality issues. "Hey, I wrote a great book that happens to have no romantic subplot in it. So. Yeah."

Re: queer fiction by non-queer writers

[(Anonymous)]

Bi academic who does queer health research here, and the general rule, so far is I can tell, is to just be up front about your identity and situation. If you identify as LGBT/queer, you can still identify as an LGBT/queer researcher (if that's what you wish to identify as, that is) even if you're in a same sex relationship, so long as you make where you're coming from and your circumstances clear. There are some researchers who will say that they identify as bi, pan, etc., but that they don't feel comfortable considering themselves a straight-up queer researcher if they're in a long-term hetero relationship, though, so some of it is also personal comfort level and whatnot. There are still some people who will turn up their noses at people who identify as anything outside of Lesbian, Gay and sometimes Trans (with some major contention for Trans researchers, too, given that some of the prejudice against them from the general LGBTQ community bleeds over into academia) and there's bickering in some corners about what constitutes "queer enough", but it's academia and... well, you're in academia so I'm sure you're used to the back-and-forth that goes on about most things. Some days it's like Tumblr with far fewer reaction gifs. This is just going by what the research that I'm familiar with, too, which is not even touching the tip of the iceberg on queer research and is mostly focused in the social and health sciences, so my perception could be skewed here.

And my guess would be asexual fiction would focus on asexual issues specifically or involve relationships with romance but no sex? I don't think I've ever actually seen any sort of fiction that involves asexuality outside of fandom, though.

Re: queer fiction by non-queer writers

[chardmonster]

I'm so used to the back and forth about things in academia that I might end up leaving academia after I get the phD, so... yeah.

Thanks for the long reply! I really do appreciate it. I wasn't so much looking to rebrand myself so much as realizing that I couldn't if I wanted to without downplaying the boyfriend, and I'm sure as hell not going to do that.

I do still kind of wish I could pipe up and say "gee, I actually do know what it's like to be incredibly repressed." But then boyfriend looks like a beard. Arg.