transandnonbinary

Hi everyone! I'm going to be taking the next week or two off from the weekly news posts; with working in the restaurant industry and doing some light traveling around the holidays, I just have a lot to keep up with. Still! I have not come empty handed.

A trans writer and critic I greatly admire recently unlocked a short story on her Patreon that she wrote a while back. I must have missed it when she first posted it, but I've read it now and boy. Wow. It's about JKR so it involves the relevant topics (transphobia, conversion therapy, etc).

Under the Stairs by Gretchen Felker-Martin

The money. I am throwing money away as fast as they will let me. Literacy. Schools. Hospitals. Every day there is a flood of letters. Children I have taught to read. Lives I have saved with access to surgery and modern medicine. Women who have fled their husbands with my help. A man slapped me, once. I know what they go through. I lived with my brother. I lived in a council flat. A fat spider weaving in the corner. Aragog.

I decide to meet them where they are, to open my heart to their dissent. A great thick encyclopedia written by the fans and edited by me. The first meetings: fawning. Inspiration, oh my God, find myself, my whole life. I love them. I have met them all a thousand times. Lost children who found me. I am like them. They need me.