Introduction to Trans Media Perspectives
One of the things I want to do here is shed some light on my own personal experience of media, through the specific lens of my trans identity. I plan to talk about at least one novel and several pieces of music and how I personally relate to them, but I'm hoping to talk about so much more.
In some cases, that's about how I related to them when I first took them in, while in others it will be about how I see them now. To some extent that is due to the nature of time, and to some extent that is due to the lateness of my realization of my identity. This has led to a situation where I've come to understand that some of my attraction to particular media is because it called to something I knew was there, even though I couldn't acknowledge it at the time.
Regardless of how you came here, I hope that you get some knowledge or enjoyment from this series of essays as it unfolds.
If you'd like, you can leave a comment on this post over on Bluesky.