Fiction & Folx, #6
Finding Your Tribe, Refusing to Be a Target for Ignorance, a Creepy Classic Short Story from 1892, & A Big Announcement
Hello, My Fabulous Friend!
This is the latest mini-newsletter of Fiction & Folx. You can find the link to the whole fabulous issue below.
Easter kicked off a beautiful week of weather here in Ohio and I’ve loved being able to get out in my yard and dig in the dirt again. My summer hobbies include gardening of all sorts. It feels so satisfying to grow veggies and flowers and fruits.
The Latest Issue of Fiction & Folx Newsletter
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- Parents of Trans Kids, Find Your Tribe is an article about how and why every parent raising a transgender child should connect with other parents doing the same. The piece includes a list of eleven sites to help you find your tribe.
- I’m a Parent & Trans Advocate, Not a Target for Your Ignorance is my attempt at figuring out how to deal with a not-so-pleasant comment on a previous article I wrote about my transgender son wanting to wear dresses.
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper is a classic short story from the late 1800s about a woman experiencing a psychotic break. It has many of my favorite things — an unreliable narrator, overall weirdness, dark undertones featuring a woman’s struggle (with at least depression if not insanity), and of course, an underlying deeper meaning behind it all. It’s a creepy little tale worth reading.
You can check out all of this in the latest Fiction & Folx newsletter.
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I bet you thought I forgot to tell you the big news…
