Nov 19 The Widows Of Eastwick By John Updike

It's the end of Season 1! Thanks for listening, see you next year!

cw: NSFW, death, cults, extensive misogyny, fatphobia, discussions of racism (specifically against Native Americans, Asians, Egyptians), homophobic language, ableist language, animal cruelty, reference to pedophilia, fetishisation of lesbians, biphobia.

This week, Grace tells G, Tosin, Nemo, Steve and Lisa about the Widows of Eastwick written by "masterful" John Updike. There's a distressing lack of frogs in teacups, a distressing amount of erection-based death sentences, gay people are literally The Devil, and there are so, so many holidays. This was recorded before "OK Boomer" became a meme but trust me, this book is a big OK Boomer mood.

Phoneticised accents: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_dialect
Biological Essentialism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_essentialism https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095507973

Trans Reading list: Honestly, I’d start with reading something free and easy to access: fanfiction. To get an idea of how trans bodies can be written into fiction in a ‘normative’ way (ie. in a way that does not reduce the ‘male’ or ‘female’ body to a penis or a vagina read something from this link: it’s filtered for trans characters, so find a fandom you enjoy and let it rip!

Books:
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/07/03/7-new-transgender-books-summer-reading/
https://www.harpercollins.co.uk/9780008306069/unicorn-the-memoir-of-a-muslim-drag-queen/
https://fiveleaves.co.uk/product/unorthodox-lgbt-identity-and-faith/
https://bookriot.com/2018/07/02/transgender-fiction/
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/b/books/lgbt-fiction/transgender-fiction/_/N-29Z8q8Z2llo
https://pflag.org/resource/transgender-reading-list-adults

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