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Revisiting “Silence of the Lambs” in the Age of Trans Backlash

Sometimes you are reading a book—not even one by a well-known transphobic children’s author—and are struck, halfway through or near the end, by a bit of transphobia. Sometimes it’s load-bearing: Both Helen Oyeyemi’s Boy, Snow, Bird and Lidia Yuknavitch’s The Book of Joan end with revelations that their villain characters are caricatures of trans masculinity […] The post Revisiting “Silence of the Lambs” in the Age of Trans Backlash appeared first on Electric Literature .

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