Hello. It's been a while but sometimes I depserately need my voice here, other times not so much. Things have been busy with my family and the LARP to the point where I haven't had a chance to write.
Back in my 20's there was a comic called The Sandman, which is now being made into a Netflix series. I loved that comic.Neil Gaiman has become my favorite author, though I mostly appreciate his comics or his short stories.
My favorite story in The Sandman was called "A Game of You" where a person named Barbie has to travel to her childhood imaginary land to save it. It's very violent and a lot of characters die, though I want to talk about one in particular and how it made me feel.
I want to talk about Wanda. She was transgender and she heroically dies protecting Barbie's body from a collapsing building while Barbie's consciousness was in her imaginary realm. Then Wanda's family (Wanda and Barbie lived in New York) got a hold of her. They buried her in a suit, cur her hair, and used her dead name. Even as a 20-something in the 90's I felt the violation of this act so acutely. I couldn't stop crying over what they did to her. It was horrible.
Then Barbie uses her lipstick to write Wanda on the tombstone, an act of defiance I tearfully cheered on.
I do hope the series is successful and other people get to see that scene, because I want to have that shared. I want other people to see things that still happen in this world.
Wanda was a woman.
Trans women are women.
That is all.
